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Jeffrey Eugenides
“My goal in life is to become an adjective," Leonard said. "People would go around saying, 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or, 'A little too Bankheadian for my taste.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides
“It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides
“The worst part was that, as the years passed, these memories became, in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the key to your unhappiness. They were the evidence that life wasn’t fair. If you weren’t a lucky child, you didn’t know you weren’t lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides
“It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful house. And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife' ”. As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical applications. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Judith Butler
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
Judith Butler

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