I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
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 EugenidesWhat are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.
Jeffrey EugenidesMy change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
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