Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love, Life, Learning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black

• We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love, Giving, Stronger

• I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people-and especially doctors- had doubts about normality. They weren't sure normality was up the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Jobs, Doctors, People

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.503, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, School, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

• The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love Is, Giving, Profound

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