AtomicQuote

Jeffrey Eugenides Quote

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.

Tags: love letter

Related Quotes

We met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I--drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your--foreign static frequency and grey-green ey...

Moonshine Noire

we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I--drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your--foreign static frequency and grey-green ey...

Tags: angels, beat generation, beat poetry, beauty, calm, dead, demons, depression, drowning, eyes

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Michael Bassey Johnson

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Tags: amorous, bard, beginning, lines, love, love letter, love letters, michael bassey johnson, notes, outcome

...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in th...

Michael Bassey Johnson

...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in th...

Tags: boy, callow, carnal, child, children, coward, delinquency, female, girl, hearts

I'm comming to You.You are blazing.I'm giving You a rose.It embalms sweet.I'm givin a kiss...I melt of You.I melt and flow with You.Like an ice in a spring river.I melt and stay. Sun will vaporise us....

Martins Paparde

I'm comming to You.You are blazing.I'm giving You a rose.It embalms sweet.I'm givin a kiss...I melt of You.I melt and flow with You.Like an ice in a spring river.I melt and stay. Sun will vaporise us....

Tags: long distance love, long distance relationships, longing, longings, love, love letter, love story, missing person, romance

Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter.

Auliq Ice

Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter.

Tags: dating, falling in love, internet dating, love, love at first sight, love confession, love express language, love expressed, love letter, love letters

A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sin...

Mehmet Murat ildan

A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sin...

Tags: bright, cheerful, dark, letter, long, love letter, love letters, love, love and saying, love and sayings

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

Charlotte Eriksson

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

Tags: darkness, happiness, happy, islands, letter, lit, love, love letter, me, poetry

Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t think the view could be any more perfect until I saw that beat-up trilb...

David Mitchell

Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t think the view could be any more perfect until I saw that beat-up trilb...

Tags: love, love letter, lovers, suicide note

Darling-- I love these velvet nights. I've never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a grand patron --or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it bl...

Zelda Fitzgerald

Darling-- I love these velvet nights. I've never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a grand patron --or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it bl...

Tags: love letter, zelda fitzgerald

Helen,You ask if I regret our engagement.No. I regret every minute that you're out of my sight. I regret every step that doesn't bring me closer to you.My last thought each night is that you should be...

Lisa Kleypas

Helen,You ask if I regret our engagement.No. I regret every minute that you're out of my sight. I regret every step that doesn't bring me closer to you.My last thought each night is that you should be...

Tags: love letter, rhys winterborne
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.