We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. Auteur: Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Quote More from Jeffrey Eugenides “The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.” “The trees like lungs filling with airMy sister, the mean one, pulling my hair” “Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of t…” “We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and …”