• 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: 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 (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan