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• She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

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  Heart, Instruction, Over It

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black

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• In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

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  Death, Stubbornness, Ends

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• Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

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  Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

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  Feelings, Wonderful Life, Virgin Suicides

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

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  Character, Emotion, Reader

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

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  Reason, English Major, Majors

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

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  Facts, Essentials, Repetition

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Don't waste your time on life.

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  Waste, Don't Waste Your Time

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

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  World, Reason, Clock

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

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  Thinking, People, Important

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• Usually my ideas are small.

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  Ideas

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• The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

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  Love Is, Giving, Profound

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• Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

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  Ice, Personality, Identity

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.125, A&C Black

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• 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 yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis

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  Daughter, Suicide, Light

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• You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.

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  Girl, Sight, Differences

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.275, Macmillan

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• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. 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.

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  Girl, Jobs, Animal

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

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• The worst thing about religion was religious people.

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  Religious, People, Religion

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.214, Macmillan

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• He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

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  Heartbroken, Two, Feelings

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• The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

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  Solitude, Lovers, Solitary

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

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  Knowing Nothing, Always Knowing, Forever

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• I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

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  Father, Past, Grandparent

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.425, A&C Black

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• Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

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  Imagination, Novelists, Should

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

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  Ideas, Mind, Literature

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• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

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  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

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  Believe, People, Needs

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