The Virgin Suicides Quotes

#1. The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

Karen Thompson Walker

#2. It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#3. Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Marc Jacobs

#4. When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#5. I did turn down 'The Virgin Suicides.' I talked to the producers about it, and I just honestly told them that I didn't get it. Is it supposed to be funny, is it a thriller, what is it?

Terry Zwigoff

#6. We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

Hortense Odlum

#8. Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

Ken Bruen

#9. You never get over it", she said, "but you get where it doesn't bother you so much".

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#13. O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. 'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

Gia Coppola

#15. Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. The most of the serious errors happen in our life,when we ignore our owns pain for us!!

Umakant

#17. I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

Elle Fanning

#18. If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

Kirsten Dunst

#19. Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#20. What are bashed neeps?"
"Neeps hackit with balmagowry.

Patrick O'Brian

#21. [ ... ] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#22. And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#24. We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it - that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#25. Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Nikolai Gogol

#26. Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

Victor Hugo

#27. Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people ... Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#28. Wade peeked over his shoulder. "Robin? Wow, bro, I'm sorry. I'm Ross. Robin and Ross. I kinda like Ross better." Darrell hid the passport in his jeans. "We shall never speak of this again." "Kids,

Tony Abbott

#29. At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#30. It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Adrian Grenier

#31. He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

Jon Meacham

#32. Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

Statius

#33. During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#34. But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

Bryan Ferry