Hayra’s Reviews > The Virgin Suicides > Status Update

"Unable to go anywhere, the girls traveled in their imaginations (...)"

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"They were, after all, our neighbors."

A phrase that may seem very simple and unnecessary to say, but in this book it has a lot of power and the presence of a reality that the narrators forgot to process or accept at the time .

"He didn't understand how she had bewitched him, not why having done so she promptly forgot his existence, and in desperate moods he asked his mirror why the only girl he was crazy about was the only girl not crazy about him."

Cliché scene, but one that I quite like, if managed properly

"Even years later, Trip was reticent on the subject, in accord with his vows of faithfulness to the four hundred and eighteen girls and women he had made love to during his long career."

BOY, WHAT THE HELL???!!!
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What I'm surprised at the most, is that he kept the count all this time

"We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."

"And so we learned about their lives, came to hold collective memories of times we hadn´t experiences, (...)"