It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
Jeffrey EugenidesIf Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
Jeffrey EugenidesAll sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.
Jeffrey EugenidesJacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
Jeffrey Eugenides