He had the wit of a store mannequin.
Jeffrey EugenidesWhen it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full posession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-- these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
Jeffrey EugenidesShe used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Jeffrey EugenidesI am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life.
Jeffrey EugenidesWho are you, anyway?"
"Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them."
"I could have sworn we just met," Madeleine said. "And that you don't know anything about me."
Henry stood up. With a slightly offended air but undiminished confidence, he said, "People save themselves."
He left her with that to think about.
Semiotic was the form Zipperstein`s midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution.
Jeffrey EugenidesI tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you’ll never dumb things down. You won’t have to explain things that don’t need explaining. You’ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don’t wish to be condescended to. I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not “audience.” Not “readership.” Just the reader.
Jeffrey EugenidesStichwörter: writing
It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?"
She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says.
In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling.
Jeffrey EugenidesStichwörter: breakups
Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.
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