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• Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

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  Mother, Two, Wire

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• The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

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  Grandparent, Missing, Sound

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.223, A&C Black

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• Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

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  Father, Passion, Player

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.173, A&C Black

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• I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

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  Long, Finals, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.20, A&C Black

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

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  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

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  Boys, Men, Intention

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.379, A&C Black

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• Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

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  Song, Crazy, Radio

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

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  Eye, Feet, One Day

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

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  Half, Other Half, Made

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.440, A&C Black

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• The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

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  Zippers, Way, Spine

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

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  Believe, Book, Writing

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• The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

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  Girl, Powerful, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

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  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

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  Mean, Hair, Tree

  "Fictional character: Cecilia Lisbon". "The Virgin Suicides", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

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  Teenager, Problem, Virgin Suicides

  "The Virgin Suicides". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 1993.

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• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

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  Years, People, Car

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• The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

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  Girl, Clouds, Boulders

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

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  Memories, Writing

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• 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, Noise

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

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• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

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  Winter, Despair, Alcoholism

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• Every letter was a love letter.

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  Letters, Love Letter

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• no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

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  Sight, Years, Mazes

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.107, A&C Black

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• To start with, look at all the books.

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  Book, Looks

  "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

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• He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

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  Long, People, Grandparent

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• Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

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  Feelings, Emotion, Language

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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