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“In this dark, there will be light. Will you help us?”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Her suicide, from this perspective, was seen as a kind of disease infecting those close at hand. In the bathtub, cooking in the broth of her own blood, Cecilia had released an airborne virus which the other girls, even in coming to save her, had contracted.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“He could sense her whole being through the kiss,”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides