Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.
Jeffrey EugenidesThe only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
Jeffrey EugenidesI climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. But there was no hiding from reality that morning.
Jeffrey EugenidesПостепенно умът му стана също толкова фрагментарен, колкото поемите на Сафо, които така и не успя да възстанови, и накрая една сутрин погледна лицето на жената, която беше обичал повече от всичко, и не я позна. В този миг преживя трети удар; кръвта нахлу в мозъка му за последен път, отмивайки и последните фрагменти от неговата личност.
Jeffrey EugenidesTag: jeffrey-eugenides middlesex
And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how 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.
Jeffrey EugenidesTag: jeffrey-eugenides the-marriage-plot
One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though.
Darlene, in The Marriage Plot
Tag: jeffrey-eugenides the-marriage-plot
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
Jeffrey EugenidesThey were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.
Jeffrey EugenidesIn the Orthodox Church, we don't go for partial immersion; no sprinkling, no forehead dabbing for us. In order to be reborn, you have to be buried first, so under the water I went.
Jeffrey EugenidesSociety discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent to war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable?
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