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If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Love, House, Alternatives
Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Girl, Couple, House
Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.41, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Becoming One, House, Survival
Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Memories, Years, House
"Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

Jeffrey Eugenides
Writing, Character, House
Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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