The Virgin Suicides Quotes

I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.

The room’s changes- water bugs adhering to walls, one bobbing dead mouse- only heightened what hadn’t changed

So much has been written about the girls in the newspapers, so much has been said over back-yard fences, or related over the years in psychiatrists’ offices, that we are certain only of the insufficiency of explanations.

The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut.

Everybody had a story as to why she tried to kill herself. Mrs. Buell said the parents were to blame. "That girl didn't want to die," she told us. "She just wanted out of that house." Mrs. Scheer added, "she wanted out of that decorating scheme."

A series of dissolves, their house, street, city, country, and finally planet, which not only dwarfs but obliterates them.