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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides [ˈdʒɛfɹɪ juˈdʒinɪdəs] ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 8. März 1960  •  Andere Namen جفری ایوژنایدس
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“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Marriage Plot

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Marriage Plot

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Marriage Plot

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“Scars crossed her welded wrists.”

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Marriage Plot

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“Every letter was a love letter.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Marriage Plot

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch Middlesex

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“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides buch The Virgin Suicides

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