My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
Jeffrey EugenidesChunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
Jeffrey EugenidesHistorical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
Jeffrey Eugenides