AtomicQuote

Jeffrey Eugenides Quote

Chucking her under her chin, he said, What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: Obviously, Doctor, she said, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Chucking her under her chin, he said, What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: Obviously, Doctor, she said, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

Related Quotes

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Tags: love, i am, me, contact

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

Arthur Aron

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

Tags: contact, humanity, intimacy, psychology, relationship

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

Tags: time, procrastination, one, day

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Justin Timberlake

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Tags: famous, privacy, worst, being

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

Anthony T.Hincks

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

Tags: beauty, beauty in you, know, life, philosophy, stranger, you

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

Germany Kent

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

Tags: action, around the world, awareness, best practices, biz talk, bloggers, blogging etiquette, brand fit, brand strategy, branding marketing

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Kamand Kojouri

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Tags: begin again, betray, betrayal, betrayed, buddha, buddhism, calm, cheat, cheated, cry

She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest to discover her magic. She was relentless like that, the woman didn't need no body but an open r...

Nikki Rowe

She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest to discover her magic. She was relentless like that, the woman didn't need no body but an open r...

Tags: adventure, artist, authentic, balance, brave heart, courage, empowering women, free spirit, freedom, growth

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Ashavan

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Tags: belief, beliefs, facts, philosophy

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

Holly Black

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

Tags: cold, coldest girl in coldtown, dark, midnight, tana, tana bach
About Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.