Steve Hayer

“This whole country's stolen.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex