sun-warmed paperbacks and iced coffee awaited her. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

and the sense she had of herself, then and now, as being the one in a troop of girls a writer might write a book about. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot 

There are crappy little apartments in New Jersey and New Haven where two studious people could be studious together. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot 

You think you are not a vain person. You are maybe not so much into your body. But you are probably more vain about how intelligent you are. Or how good you are. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

The coffee was hot, and lifesavingly good. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot