"next to it were five spotted photographs of the lisbon girls, pinned with rusty tacks. we didn’t remember putting them up, but there they were, dim from time and weather so that all we could make out were the phosphorescent outlines of the girls’ bodies, each a different glowing letter of an unknown alphabet."

~   the virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides
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"we knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."

~   the virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides
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