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The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of Bombyx mori, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. The legs of the larve have degenerated, and the adults do not fly.
A series of dissolves, their house, street, city, country, and finally planet, which not only dwarfs but obliterates them.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
The girls were right in choosing to love Trip, because he was the only boy who could keep his mouth shut.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
“Obviously, Doctor… you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl."
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
Vince Fusilli held up his lighter… It was the best we could do for an eternal flame.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
We realized that our fathers, brothers and uncles had been lying, and that .no one was ever going to love us for our good grades.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
We asked Father Moody whether he had discussed Cecilia’s death or the girls’ grief, but he said he hadn’t.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
“None of my daughters lacked for any love. We had plenty of love in our house.”
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
They don't farm silk in America. They wear clothes, don't they? Or do they go around naked? If they wear clothes, they need silk. And they can buy it from me. “Okay, whatever you want. Just hurry.”
The room’s changes- water bugs adhering to walls, one bobbing dead mouse- only heightened what hadn’t changed
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
“I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
They knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
The small statue of a girl… donated in memory of Laura White, her bronze skirt just beginning to oxidize. Scars crossed her welded wrists, symbolically, but the Lisbon girls didn’t notice.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
We had never known them. They had brought us here to find that out.
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
You don’t understand me… I’m a teenager. I’ve got problems!
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
The flagpole that had flown at half-mast the day Cecilia died, though it had been summer and no one but the lawn crew had noticed
The Virgin Suicides (1993)