"The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it."

“As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.”

“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”

“The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.”

“If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.”

“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”

“We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.”

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

“The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.”

Source : Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press