Quotes by : Jeffrey Eugenides

But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the....

I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing....

Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was....

This whole country's stolen.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."....

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal....

It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the....

Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew....

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights.....

Find the Bad Guy means how, when you’re arguing with your spouse, both people are trying to win the....