"The Virgin Suicides" Quotes
A group of teenage boys become obsessed with the mysterious Lisbon sisters and their tragic story.
fiction | Published in 2013
Quotes
We knew 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.
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.
At that moment, our discussion seemed to be taking on the weight of a philosophical system.
We were struck by their physical perfection.
We had the experience but missed the meaning.
We had the feeling that the sky was the limit.
We were all in it and we were all in it together.
We could only guess what the girls were feeling, what they were thinking, and that was the cause of their mystery.
We were the last to know what they were up to.
We didn't understand that they were trying to make sense of the world, and that they were doing it in the only way they knew how.
