#middlesex; jeffrey eugenides

[augment-techs]

And and and a Greek!Calpresto AU???

@skyland2703

[flowerytale]

Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex

[derangedrhythms]

Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one’s senses.

Jeffrey Eugenides, from 'Middlesex'

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Hua Cheng- Heaven Official's Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 

Cal Stephanides- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Simon Torquill- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

Alex Fierro-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

It turned out that when it finally happened, the revolution wasn't televised. On TV they called it only a riot.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[quotelr]

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[princessofmistake]

La biologia ci dà un cervello, la vita lo trasforma in una mente.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Ferdinand Hodler. The Disappointed Souls. 1892 :: (Mikhail Iossel)

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“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[dtwof]

What if that girl in the mirror really was me? How did I think I could defect to the other side so easily? What did I know about boys, about men? I didn’t even like them that much.

– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[litandlifequotes]

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

[therestlessdead]

[searidings]

Wow 108 books, that's amazing!!! I definitely need to check out the bold/italicized ones on your list at least

My goal for this year was 52 and I'm trying to make it in these last couple days lol do you have any specific recs that are shorter? Or maybe good audiobooks for variety? I just listened to This Is How You Lose the Time War in a sitting from like 8 pm to 2am and it was so good and visceral I felt like I was going insane

hmmm idk if you like sci-fi and/or if you've ever tried becky chambers (who i would recommend regardless) but to be taught, if fortunate is a charming little sci-fi novella that restored my faith in humanity in the most touchingly beautiful way

for great audiobooks i will NOT stop screaming about the locked tomb series by tamsyn muir, the narration is EXQUISITE like these are not short books nor are they straightforward but i'm not a big re-reader yet as you can see from my list, i read/listened to that series 3 times in one year (twice in a month) because they're just That Good

[twicedailyquotes]

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters: money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Chekhov was right. If there's a gun on the wall, it's got to go off. In real life, however, you never know where the gun is hanging.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[vimesbootstheory]

Chapters: 11/34 Fandom: The Pretender (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jarod (the Pretender)/Miss Parker (the Pretender) Characters: Miss Parker (the Pretender), Jarod (the Pretender), Brigitte (the Pretender), Broots (the Pretender), Sydney (the Pretender), Mr. Parker (the Pretender), Mr. Cox (the Pretender) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Blackmail, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Lovers Summary:

After re-capturing Jarod, the Centre devises a way to keep him on a leash. Miss Parker gets dragged into the resulting mess.