• 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: 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 (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan