You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters,…

- Jeffrey Eugenides

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

- Jeffrey Eugenides