Kendall

“and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms, a creature clubbed mute, only its sudden voicelessness making us realize it had been speaking all along.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped-out elms, the harsh sunlight, the continuing decline of our auto industry.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I need the books. They're all I've got.”
― Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

“and it was clear, if you looked up, that the earth had turned its blue face away from the sun, that it was sweeping down it's own dark alley in space, over where cobwebs collected in tr he ceiling corner, out of reach of the janitor's broom.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides