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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dffdd52 | Though he'd never been religious, he realized now that he'd always believed in the soul, in a force of personality that survived death. But as his mind continued to waver, to short-circuit, he finally arrived at the cold-eyed conclusion, so at odds with his youthful cheerfulness, that the brain was just an organ like any other and that when it failed he would be no more. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ab03e33 | Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7e4b428 | Ilyenek a ferfiak. Ugy mutatjak ki az erzelmeiket, hogy rad telepszenek, akar a koporsofedel. Es meg ezt hivjak szerelemnek. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 546b928 | Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was to be separate yet united. This dream never quite came to be. Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. | dedicated-to-money detroit-michigan interlocking-hexagons money separated-yet-united urban-arcadia wheel | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 05c2ef7 | The adaptation [to assembly lines] has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into the joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. | joysticks plug-in remotes repetitive-motions | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| ea6f440 | He had been a teacher so long he had a sink in his room. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 8f3db73 | Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne's voice, "My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1e8da81 | Ugy dontott, hogy nem ragadhat le, elni kell tovabb. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6c1b56f | Olyannak akarta erezni a vilagot, mint ahol csak most kezdodik az elet - holott valojaban epp veget erni keszult. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ae6f034 | It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 060d53c | Barmerre menekultem is, mindenutt teged lattalak magam elott. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6aaf50d | Hirtelen az jutott az eszembe, hany es hany kulonos sorsot rejt magaban a vilag: akik odabent elnek a hazakban, azoknak ezerfele gondolat nyuzsog a fejeben, penzugyek, szerelmi gondok, iskolai problemak. Az emberek szerelembe esnek, osszehazasodnak, kabitoszer-elvonokurara jarnak, korcsolyazni tanulnak, bifokalis szemuveget probalnak az optikusnal es ruhakat az aruhazi probafulkeben, hajat vagatnak, megszuletnek. Vannak hazak, ahol a lakok .. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 94f19f7 | Ordogi kor alakult ki: nem volt kit szeretni, hat nem volt tobbe szerelem, nem volt tobbe szerelem, nem szulettek tobbe gyerekek, es mert nem szulettek tobbe gyerekek, nem volt kit szeretni tobbe. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0452acf | Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 19a3cae | Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 691fceb | pulled out a blue bandanna, | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 42a4731 | Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 72ba08e | biosynthesis and peripheral action of testosterone, | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ec28dff | Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Since 1818, the city had spread out along the river, warehouse by warehouse, factory by factory. Judge Woodward's wheels had been squashed, bisected, pressed into the usual rectangles. | grid hexagons urban-planning wheels | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 901445a | The two of them, father and son, lived like roommates, stumbling upon each other in their matching peacock robes, bitching over who used up the coffee, but by afternoon they drifted in the pool together, bumping the sides, compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth. They | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 89eee0a | Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 268bd2f | Dezdemonanak fogalma sem volt rola, mi tortenik vele. O meg nem ugy kepzelte el sajat benso enjet, mint egy hatalmas komputert, ahol minden egyesek es nullak vegtelen lancolatabol es esetleg egy-egy olalkodo virusbol all. Mi, mai emberek, mar tisztaban vagyunk azzal, hogy sajat genetikai terkepunket mindenhova magunkkal hurcoljuk. Akkor is a sorsunk diktatumanak engedelmeskedunk, amikor az utcasarkon ogyelgunk. Ez rajzolja ugyanazokat a ran.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e960dd9 | But maybe the Charm Bracelets 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 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 | ||
| b09daf6 | Neha eszre se vesszuk, ami majd kiboki a szemunket. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9a4d57a | I was already well acquainted with the splendors of her mouth. Smoking is good for that. You get a full display of the puckering, and the sucking. The tongue often makes an appearance, licking from the lips any stickiness imparted by the filter. Sometimes bits of paper adhere to the bottom lip and the smoker, pulling them away, reveals the candied lower teeth against the pulpy gums. And if the smoker is a blower of smoke rings, you get to s.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9025656 | Ugye, megmondtam, hogy a jo szerencsere mindig banat jon! | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 4119dc5 | En vagyok a pont egy osszetett mondat vegen, amely mondat hosszu-hosszu evekkel ezelott, egy masik nyelven kezdodott, es amelyet az elejetol kell olvasni, hogy erteni lehessen a veget - azt, amikor megerkeztem en. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 5508ca9 | androgynous | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e4de335 | Corpul ii era ca o tulpina, sustinand laleaua creierului sau. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 462440a | Continuu sa cred ca aceste semne negre facute pe hartia alba poarta cea mai adanca semnificatie, ca daca o tin tot asa cu scrisul, as putea reusi sa prind curcubeul constiintei intr-un borcan. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 8a836fb | Avea cate un citat pentru fiecare lucru care i se intampla si in felul acesta evada din viata reala. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| eeaa92d | The gates were doing something to him already, because as he raised his hand to wave back at his parents, Mitchell felt ten years old again, tearing up, choked with feeling for these two human beings who, like figures from myth, had possessed the ability throughout his life to blend into the background, to turn to stone or wood, only to come alive again, at key moments like this, to witness his hero's journey. Lillian | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 271c343 | I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 99a93fb | Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice? | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| fecb30d | Antes era possivel, em geral, dizer a nacionalidade da pessoa pela cara. A imigracao acabou com isso. Depois ainda dava para descobrir a nacionalidade pelos sapatos. A globalizacao acabou com isso. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b0c3c5a | Pais supostamente legam caracteristicas fisicas aos filhos, mas acredito que todo tipo de outras coisas tambem: temas, cenarios, ate mesmo destinos. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| cf735f0 | A mente se autoedita. A mente se da retoques. Habitar um corpo e diferente de estar fora dele. De fora, a gente pode olhar, inspecionar, comparar. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 855c21f | As mulheres sabem o que significa ter um corpo. Compreendem suas dificuldades e fragilidades, suas glorias e seus prazeres. Os homens tratam o corpo como coisa so sua. Cuidam dele privadamente, mesmo quando estao em publico. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 896aae2 | All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 2b21791 | How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits--of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel--made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d029515 | It had to do with Leonard. With how she felt about him and how she couldn't tell anyone. With how much she liked him and how little she knew about him. With how desperately she wanted to see him and how hard it was to do so. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b209d32 | The Lisbon girls were thirteen (Cecelia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary), and seventeen (Therese). | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 38a59ce | Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b057d2b | I would handle the deep intellectual matters, like vibrators; she would handle the social sphere. | Jeffrey Eugenides |