Life Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

— Marisha Pessl

“It was a fluke. But then, life is.”

— Marisha Pessl

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

— Marisha Pessl

“The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your…

— Marisha Pessl

“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.”

— Marisha Pessl

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

— Marisha Pessl

“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.”

— Marisha Pessl

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

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“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.”

— Marisha Pessl

People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

— Marisha Pessl

“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.”

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“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a…

— Marisha Pessl

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

“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

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…

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“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

“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to…

— Marisha Pessl

“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

Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back…

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She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches…

— Marisha Pessl

“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

“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

“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

“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."…

— Marisha Pessl

“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

“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches…

— Marisha Pessl

“[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

“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

“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”

— Marisha Pessl

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and…

— Marisha Pessl

“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

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