The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
("The Virgin Suicides")
More Quotes from Jeffrey Eugenides:
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.Jeffrey Eugenides
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
Jeffrey Eugenides
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.
Jeffrey Eugenides
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
Jeffrey Eugenides
The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Death & Dying QuotesIt was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
Victoria Jackson
The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
Dave Thomas
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Joseph Brodsky