“ 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
“ Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin'On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe's my virgin suicide Jeffrey Eugenides
“ They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen. Even in s… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she h… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What my could never understand about America was why everyone… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls. Our parents thought it had to do with our music, our godlessness, or the loosening of morals regarding sex we hadn't even had. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by b… Alana Massey
“ Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable. Jeffrey Eugenides
