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
At the end of an evening with friends he was always exhausted. - Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend
You know who are the lucky ones? The Mary Agneses of the world. Mary Agnes has her whole life figured out: get married next June, save her money, plod along in her job, never look to life to give her anything more. She’s the poor little product of training and ignorance and habit, and she’s smarter than any of you. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything
