Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes.

11. "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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12. "You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much."
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13. "If you weren't a lucky child, you didn't know you weren't lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about."
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14. "It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another."
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15. "She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life."
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16. "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"
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17. "What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved them. Here was a sign that she wasn’t alone. Here was an articulation of what she had been so far mutely feeling. In bed on a Friday night, wearing sweatpants, her hair tied back, her glasses smudged, and eating peanut butter from the jar, Madeleine was in a state of extreme solitude."
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18. "This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain."
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19. "And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical--because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in."
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20. "There's a time to talk and a time for silence."
- Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides