Eveline

“She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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

“Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?
The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”
― Judith Butler, Undoing Gender