Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex
—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex
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 of the same name,...
You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
—Aldous Huxley in Island
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.