The Virgin Suicides

My only negative experience with this book was the many references to their bodies as if it really mattered (especially since the narrators seem to be grown men with wives recalling the body of a teenage girl), and what really made me laugh was how a vagina was described as a beast with fur and “otter insulation”. It didn't ruin the story, but it lingered in my head even when watching the movie. But I know this infatuation is purposeful. It's kind of the whole point. Besides that, I truly loved this.


some of my favorite quotes (probably everyone else's too, I'm not very original):

“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.”

“if we were to be honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that it is always that pale wraith we make love to, always her feet snagged in the gutter, always her single blooming hand steadying itself against the chimney, no matter what our present lovers' feet and hands are doing.”

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time”