Love Quotes in Middlesex
How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
No one to love: no love. No love: no babies. No babies: no one to love. (1.2.75)
A lack of love is a vicious cycle, and you might even say that love is what makes the world go around. At the very least, it keeps obstetricians in business.
Quote #2
"I think love breaks all taboos. Don't you?" (1.4.39)
This is a bold statement. How many taboos are broken in Middlesex? Heck, how many taboos are broken in the first chapter?
Quote #3
Desdemona stepped forward again to meet her husband's lips. Their first kiss in the great American outdoors, on the back porch, near a cherry tree losing its leaves. (2.152)
Ah, what a romantic moment. It's also tinged with sadness—cherry tree losing its leaves, eh? We're not sure if they're going to have this kind of romance ever again.
Quote #4
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? (2.5.56)
Face it, kids: Chances are decent your parents once loved each other, if only for a moment. What was their story? We want to know, and not just because we're filthy gossips, we swear. But really, tell us all the deets.
Quote #5
Tessie couldn't concentrate. She kept thinking that if something happened to Milton, if he was wounded or, God forbid, if he didn't come back—she would be somehow to blame. (2.6.48)
Is this love that she's feeling? Or is she feeling guilt over what she did to Milton? Are they two halves of the same coin?
Quote #6
The Obscure Object and I met unawares, however, in blissful ignorance. (3.7.5)
We're not sure if Cal ever admits that he loves the Obscure Object, but he totally does. That's the thing about love: it creeps up when Cal least expects it.
Quote #7
I had the Obscure Object in my arms. (3.6.166)
You've heard that love knows no bounds. Well, it clearly doesn't in Cal's case. Not only does love transcend death, love comes from death in this case. The love between the Object and Cal might never have happened if Maxine Grossinger hadn't dropped dead suddenly during the performance of Antigone.
Quote #8
I was in love. Secretly, shamefully, not entirely consciously, but for all that quite head-over-heels in love. (3.8.19)
Right before this line, Cal talks about rising tensions in Turkey in Greece. How is a girl supposed to fall in love when her home country is at war? Well, it happened with Cal's parents, remember? All is kind of unfair in love and war, because love waits for no one.
Quote #9
I was only feigning squeamishness. In actuality I wouldn't have minded sharing the Object's toothbrush. I wouldn't have minded being the Object's toothbrush. (3.8.80)
Now that's love: willing to be someone's toothbrush. We guess being someone's toothbrush can't really be all that more intimate than a good ol' French kiss, can it?
Quote #10
"I like my life," [Cal] told [Desdemona]. "I'm going to have a good life." (4.7.187)
Cal might as well say I love my life here. This is one of those you have to love yourself before you can love someone else moments. Cal has finally accepted who he is, and he's ready to love life and to love others.