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But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Mean, And Love, Birth
Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.388, A&C Black

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Matter, Birth, Given
Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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