Author of quotes: Jeffrey Eugenides

Again, this ubiquitous big dipper... On the maps there just are no stars, and tilt your head and bury in a large bucket.

Obviously, she was a dreamer. She didn't find a place in another world. When she jumped, she probably thought that would fly.

The Church did not seek to ensure that people did not think. The Church believes that thoughts have their limits. And where the end of the meditations, begins the revelation.

He loved to quote the opinion of this ingenious ladies of the German language lies in the fact that this language is not adapted to oral speech, as you have to wait until the end of the sentence to hear the verb and to interrupt the interlocutor is not possible.

In the corridors of the school sisters of Lisbon took place, with enviable poise, her books and turning their views into the space: they saw something that not long ago was to see us. Sisters were like Aeneas, who (as it turned out after removing it from the oblivion the book of dust) visited the underworld and met there with the dead and came back upstairs with forever lodged in his chest with grief.

Crazy is something that makes you avoid them. That is the futility of all attempts to shut it down? Probably, but there is something else, something like fear to get infected.

- ... no matter how much we tried to be kind, it's never enough.

Four of the visitors of the bar are three of primping, held hands through the hair, showing a willingness to copulate. The men answered that lowered the voice and from time to time groping women. If you do not pay attention to such human characteristics, like speech and clothing, primitive behavior became more obvious.

When you're Superman, the problem is that everyone else is terribly slow.

... Over time these memories - how do you keep them in a secret drawer in the head, from time to time taking out to twist in your hands - become something dear to you things. They are the key to your unhappiness. They are evidence that life is unfair. If you're not lucky, you don't know about his bad luck, until he grows up. And then just thinking about it.

When you grow up in a family where you don't like, I don't know that there is an alternative. When you grow up with emotionally immature parents who are unhappy in marriage and are willing to transfer their feelings on children who do not understand what is happening. Just this is your life.

First meet with girlfriend because one of you knees weak. Falling in love never want to miss. And yet the more I think about it, the less I understand who she is.

The University had so many people stranded ambitions to the brim with inflated egos, clever but ruthless, diligent but insensitive, shiny but dull, that everyone felt the need optimistic smile, get high scores to succeed on all fronts, although deep down knew, as many in this pretending. People doubted themselves and feared the future.

... Efforts in part are to not pay attention to such things when people make you feel worthless, all to the contrary, deprive of self-confidence.