We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
Jeffrey EugenidesYou can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
Jeffrey EugenidesI know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
Jeffrey EugenidesIt was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.
Jeffrey Eugenides