Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, And Love, Birth

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.388, A&C Black

• I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Past, Grandparent

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.425, A&C Black

• She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Matter, Birth, Given

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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