We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. - Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
People don't save other people. People save themselves. - Jeffrey Eugenides
People don't save other people. People save themselves.
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. - Jeffrey Eugenides
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
All wisdom ends in paradox. - Jeffrey Eugenides
All wisdom ends in paradox.
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
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
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
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,…
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. - Jeffrey Eugenides
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
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