"A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on di..."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."
"Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Th..."
"It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies."
"There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you."
"O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she h..."
"She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it."
"The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time."
"But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in..."