middlesex

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.
-Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides is the most beautiful writer. I am such a fan of his and if you haven't read Middlesex yet it should at the top of your Fall reading list. The story is so incredibly layered and it's one of those books where you want to mark up all the best pages to reread once done - I wish it had been on one of my (many) university book lists. I especially loved the above quote and am tempted to purchase another copy, as mine is sitting an ocean away, which is much too far.