Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The time has to be right and the heart willing.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Willing

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

• She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Instruction, Over It

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black

• Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Two, Broken

• Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Heart, Dams

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.378, A&C Black

• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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