I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.
Jeffrey EugenidesWe realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
Jeffrey EugenidesShe held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
Jeffrey EugenidesShe may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
Jeffrey Eugenides