I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It’s not the best way to live. But it’s the way I am.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex

About Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film, while Middlesex received the...

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

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You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides

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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex

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It’s amazing what you can get used to.

—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex

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Time healed, they said, but it wasn't true, or not completely. The first raw wound of loss had closed and silvered over, yes, but the scar it had left would never heal. It would always be there, aching and tender.

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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Part of getting over it is knowing you will never get over it.

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Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn't say that she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she'd survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

—Danielle Steel in Miracle

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Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

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