Leonard’s being up early constituted a new change in his sleeping patterns, was part of the former change in his sleeping patterns, or indicated a beneficial development. She didn’t know if his perfectionism canceled out his loss of ambition, or if they were two sides of the same coin. When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
Jeffrey EugenidesListening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: personality fortunate privilige
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: melancholy brain mental-health mental-illness chemical somatic marriage-plot
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: depression mental-health mental-illness
Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it’s because of religion? No. It’s because otherwise no one can stand to look at them!
Jeffrey EugenidesThere was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: love romance separation longing lovers
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.
Jeffrey EugenidesHeartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
Jeffrey EugenidesBut it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.
Jeffrey EugenidesWe 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.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: suicide jeffrey-eugenides the-virgin-suicides pretend-happiness
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