Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Winter

Quotes about: Winter

• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Despair, Alcoholism

• All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rain, Winter, Water

• During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rain, Winter, Water

• We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baseball, Pain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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