The Virgin Suicides Quotes

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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.

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

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

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.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

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

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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