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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
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.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she hath no replies.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin'On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe's my virgin suicide
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it-that makes no sense. What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time."
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls. Our parents thought it had to do with our music, our godlessness, or the loosening of morals regarding sex we hadn't even had.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, "Don't waste your time on life."
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.
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Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides
They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
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