“ They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though sh… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable, and she thought when Dominic heard about it, on the highway, amid t… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable. Jeffrey Eugenides