Jeffrey Eugenides citáty

„V jeho očích bylo tolik lásky, že tu nebylo možné hledat pravdu“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides

„Spisovatelé by měli při psaní knih předstírat, že píší nejlepší dopis svého života pro svého nejchytřejšího kamaráda, což jim pomůže vyhnout se přílišnému vysvětlování.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides

Zdroj: [Zuzana Fonioková, Tragédie každodennosti, casopis.hostbrno.cz, 2014-03-22, http://casopis.hostbrno.cz/aktualni-rocnik/2014/03-2014/tragedie-kazdodennosti]

„Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

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

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

„It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

„She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

„I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

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

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

„I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha Middlesex

Zdroj: Middlesex

„In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Marriage Plot

Zdroj: The Marriage Plot

„The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„All wisdom ends in paradox.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides

„We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.“

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, kniha The Virgin Suicides

Zdroj: The Virgin Suicides