Jeffrey Eugenides Quote

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling