#middlesex; jeffrey eugenides

[augment-techs]

And and and a Greek!Calpresto AU???

@skyland2703

[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

[quotelr]

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

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[dtwof]

I’ve lived more than half my life as a male, and by now everything comes naturally. When Calliope surfaces, she does so like a childhood speech impediment. Suddenly there she is again, doing a hair flip, or checking her nails. It’s a little like being possessed. Callie rises up inside me, wearing my skin like a loose robe. She sticks her little hands into the baggy sleeves of my arms. She inserts her chimp’s feet through the trousers of my legs. On the sidewalk I’ll feel her girlish walk take over, and the movement brings back a kind of emotion, a desolate and gossipy sympathy for the girls I see coming home from school. This continues for a few more steps. Calliope’s hair tickles the back of my throat. I feel her press tentatively on my chest—that old nervous habit of hers—to see if anything is happening there. The sick fluid of adolescent despair that runs through her veins overflows again into mine. But then, just as suddenly, she is leaving, shrinking and melting away inside me, and when I turn to see my reflection in a window there’s this: a forty-one-year-old man with longish, wavy hair, a thin mustache, and a goatee. A kind of modern Musketeer.

– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

[surebabyholdback]

Current queer reads.

[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

[litandlifequotes]

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

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

[therestlessdead]

[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.