“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“So I would die in here. I’d leave my little life. I’d barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I’d… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling!… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It's one of these juvenile therapy scams,” he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper.… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be so cruel.… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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