Quotes from Jeffrey Eugenides

Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.

Avea cate un citat pentru fiecare lucru care i se intampla si in felul acesta evada din viata reala.

She wasn't so special, maybe. She was his ideal, but an early conception of it, and he would get over it in time.

Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.

I ask you: is dullness a gift? Intelligence a curse? I'm forty-seven years old and live alone.

Ha egyszer megjártad az alvilágot, soha többé nem felejted el a visszavezetÅ' utat.

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren't sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.

asked to translate different bits

We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal!

Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen year-old girl.

Élem a magam életét, nyalogatom a saját sebeimet. Lehet, hogy nem ez a legjobb megoldás, de én ilyen vagyok.

A túlélÅ'k b?ntudata gyötörte, azért menekült a világegyetem kiismerhetetlen erÅ'inek karmai közé, hogy büntesse magát, amiért még mindig élt.

Ez is olyan, mint a képek a múzeumban – állapította meg –, csak arra próbálnak ürügyet találni, hogy meztelen nÅ'ket mutogassanak.

Dr. Phil never talked about Smyrna and left the room if anyone did. He never mentioned his murdered sons and daughters. Maybe this was the reason for his survival.

It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein's contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.

Ördögi kör alakult ki: nem volt kit szeretni, hát nem volt többé szerelem, nem volt többé szerelem, nem születtek többé gyerekek, és mert nem születtek többé gyerekek, nem volt kit szeretni többé.

The gates were doing something to him already, because as he raised his hand to wave back at his parents, Mitchell felt ten years old again, tearing up, choked with feeling for these two human beings who, like figures from myth, had possessed the ability throughout his life to blend into the background, to turn to stone or wood, only to come alive again, at key moments like this, to witness his hero's journey. Lillian

His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.

But who knew what would happen once he got to Canada? Canada with its pacifism and its socialized medicine! Canada with its millions of French speakers! It was like…like…like a foreign country! Father Mike might become a fugitive over there, living it up in Quebec. He might disappear into Saskatchewan and roam with the moose. -Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003), P. 507

This has all been verified. Under the microscope. The male sperms are faster." "I bet they're stupider, too.

The Parks Department continued to cut down trees, removing a sick elm to save the remaining twenty, then removing another to save the remaining nineteen, and so on and so on until only the half-tree remained in front of the Lisbons' old house. Nobody could bear to watch when they came for it (Tim Winer compared the tree to the last speaker of Manx)

Aquí nos encontramos básicamente con una soñadora, una persona sin contacto con la realidad. Cuando saltó, probablemente se figuraba que volaría

I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.