"A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Faces Quotes #Second Thoughts Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Every day my love for you grows higher, deeper, wider, stronger... It grows and grows until it touches the tip of where you are and comes back to me in the loving memory of you, and my heart melts with that love and grows even more.”
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.”
“I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”
“I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.”
“I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.”
“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
“Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.”

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