• We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

    Jeffrey Eugenides: We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan