“Virgin suicide/What was that she cried?/No use in stayin’/On this holocaust ride/ She gave me her cherry/She’s my virgin suicide” (Eugenides 176).
In the book, this is actually a song from a fictional band, Cruel Crux, that Lux listens to until her mom forces her to burn all her rock records. Of course, this is where Eugenides got the title for his book.
“ “What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.” “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl” (Eugenides 7).
Cecilia, after her first suicide attempt, ends up in the emergency room, with a doctor bandaging her wrists. He can't comprehend why such a young girl would do this to herself; Cecilia knows that he won't understand what it is like to be a teenage girl.
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together…We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them” (Eugenides 43-44).
The book is told from the point of view of the neighborhood boys, years after this all happened. At the time, they were obsessed with the Lisbon girls and years later, after growing up, they still are. By watching the girls, collecting their things, they feel their pain almost; the boy were able to understand that the girls were beyond them.
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