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

Gia Coppola

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

Elle Fanning

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.

Tama Janowitz

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing

Cinda Williams Chima

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.

Andre Alexis

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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. Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Morton Hunt

#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. Like hot food
I love you
like warm
bread & cold
cuts, butter
sammiches
or, days later, after
Thanksgiving
when I want
whatever's left

Kevin Young

#26. Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Victoria Addino

#27. I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!"

Mitch Hedberg

#28. 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

#29. Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.

Norman Douglas

#30. No matter how messy your house may be, tidying deals with physical objects. No matter how much stuff you may own, the amount is always finite.

Marie Kondo

#31. It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Thomas Pynchon

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

Jeffrey Eugenides