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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Jeffrey Eugenides quotes about girls

American Novelist, Writer April 13, 1960

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We all received invitations, made by hand from construction paper, with balloons containing our names in Magic Marker. Our amazement at being formally invited to a house we had only visited in our bathroom fantasies was so great that we had to compare one another's invitations before we believed it. It was thrilling to know that the Lisbon girls knew our names, that their delicate vocal cords had pronounced their syllables, and that they meant something in their lives. They had had to labor... Jeffrey Eugenides
The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad..."
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "In desperate moods he asked his mirror why the girl he was..."
In desperate moods he asked his mirror why the girl he was crazy about was the only girl not crazy about him. Jeffrey Eugenides
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Jeffrey Eugenides
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. Jeffrey Eugenides
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. Jeffrey Eugenides
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced. Jeffrey Eugenides
I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their tits bleed. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her..."
A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather. Jeffrey Eugenides
Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice? Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's..."
A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet. Jeffrey Eugenides

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