Frases de Jeffrey Eugenides

“A tragédia se tornou difusa e universalizada.”

Middlesex

“Inertes exceto quando removidos, batiam as asas com fúria entre nossos dedos e então voavam para se agarrar novamente a qualquer coisa, inertes outra vez”

The Virgin Suicides

“Nosso único legado seria a deserção.”

The Virgin Suicides

“As meninas estavam enormes naqueles vestidos de cerimónia, construídos à volta de uma estrutura de arame. Tinham quilos e quilos de cabelo, bem presos, na cabeça. Embriagadas, beijando-nos, ou a desmaiar nas cadeiras, estavam destinadas ao ensino superior, aos maridos, à educação dos filhos, à infelicidade que dificilmente se percebia - enfim, à vida.”

The Virgin Suicides

“Apesar de todos os cuidados e reclamações sobre ervas daninhas, eles não davam a mínima para os gramados.”

The Virgin Suicides

“As mulheres sabem o que significa ter um corpo. Compreendem suas dificuldades e fragilidades, suas glórias e seus prazeres. Os homens tratam o corpo como coisa só sua. Cuidam dele privadamente, mesmo quando estão em público.”

The Virgin Suicides

“A mente se autoedita. A mente se dá retoques. Habitar um corpo é diferente de estar fora dele. De fora, a gente pode olhar, inspecionar, comparar.”

Middlesex

“Pais supostamente legam características físicas aos filhos, mas acredito que todo tipo de outras coisas também: temas, cenários, até mesmo destinos.”

Middlesex

“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides: Frases em inglês

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“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 livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“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.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“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 livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“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.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“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 livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in…”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot