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Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too."

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water."

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




Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind."

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us."

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.




Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time."

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in..."

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with."

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, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason."

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken."

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, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together."

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.



Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "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."

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, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on."

For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.




Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides Quotes: "Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable."

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