Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Quotes
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.