Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Virgin Suicides.
Isolation Quotes
[Cecilia] sat on a barstool, staring into her punch glass, and the shapeless bag of a dress fell over her. She had colored her lips with a red crayon, which gave her face a deranged harlot look, bu...
Suffering Quotes
Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of sui...
Women and Femininity Quotes
He inventoried deodorants and perfumes and scouring pads for rubbing away dead skin, and we were surprised to learn that there were no douches anywhere because we had thought girls douched every ni...
Mortality Quotes
"Twenty-one. Handsome. Beautiful on violin." "How?""Bridge nearby. Swift current.""How get over?""Never will." (4.72-76)
Religion Quotes
The Virgin Mary has been appearing in our city, bringing her message of peace to a crumbling world. As in Lourdes and Fatima, Our Lady has granted her presence to people just like you. For informat...
Coming of Age Quotes
Cecilia, the youngest, only thirteen, had gone first, slitting her wrists like a Stoic while taking a bath, and when they found her, afloat in her pink pool, with the yellow eyes of someone possess...
Madness Quotes
After talking with Cecilia, Dr. Hornicker made the diagnosis that her suicide was an act of aggression inspired by the repression of adolescent libidinal urges. To each of three wildly different in...
Sex Quotes
[Trip] received letters emblazoned with ten different sets of lips (the lines of each pucker distinct as a fingerprint). He stopped studying for tests because of all the girls who came over to cram...