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  • 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.

    Girl   Simple   Pyramids  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Girl   Jobs   Noise  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
  • We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis

  • You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

    "The Virgin Suicides". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 1993.
  • We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. 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.

    Girl   Jobs   Animal  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
  • The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

    Tired   Half   World  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.161, Macmillan
  • To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

    Death   Dying   Different  
    1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.
  • During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

    Rain   Winter   Water  
  • and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan
  • Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

    Suicide   Holocaust   Use  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan
  • When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

  • It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

    "Matthew Gray Gubler: I’d rather play a Chipmunk than Othello!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 31, 2010.
  • What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan
  • What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

    Girl   Doctors   Years  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan
  • The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

    Mean   Hair   Tree  
    "Fictional character: Cecilia Lisbon". "The Virgin Suicides", www.imdb.com. 1999.
  • I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan
  • Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

  • Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

  • On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.1, Macmillan
  • Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

    Life   Reality   Dreamer  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan
  • The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

  • 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
  • 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.

    Sad   Suicide   Veins  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan
  • Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? Your not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecelia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a 13 year old girl.

    Girl   Suicide   Doctors  
  • If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

  • 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.

    Girl   Powerful   Self  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan
  • She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan
  • our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
  • 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 (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan
  • I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

    Suicide   Long   Dresses  
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