The Virgin Suicides

I finished this a while ago, but 50 Shades of Gray didn't earn itself a blog entry, so I'm backtracking a little. I've yet to see the movie, but it's on my list. Since it's literary fiction, there are a million quotes I loved, but I'll try to keep it under control:

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.” 

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly” 


“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.” 


“They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.” 




I believe in exposing a taboo, rather than ignoring it.