Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

• The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wall, Voice, Childhood

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.329, A&C Black

• Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Passion, Player

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.173, A&C Black

• I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Parent, Actors, Wanted

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

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