Laura

“The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides