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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides

    Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.
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  5. Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides

    Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable, and she thought when Dominic heard about it, on the highway, amid the cactus, he would realize that it was she who loved him.
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  6. Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot

    And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops."
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