Frases de Jeffrey Eugenides página 2

“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

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides: Frases em inglês

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“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 livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“They're just memories now. Time to write them off.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

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

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“During a warm winter rain… the basins of her collarbones collected water.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“it's amazing what you can get used to.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.”

Jeffrey Eugenides

“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“Scars crossed her welded wrists.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“Every letter was a love letter.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro The Marriage Plot

Fonte: The Marriage Plot

“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“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 mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex

“It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro As Virgens Suicidas

Fonte: The Virgin Suicides

“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livro Middlesex

Fonte: Middlesex