Best Marisha Pessl Quotes
- Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… Achingly
- It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’. America
- ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all… Aisles
- Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're… Children
- It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… Accidental
- May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things,… All
- Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own… Drifty
- 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 and the scars.… All
- Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation. Dread
- Always live your life with your biography in mind. Always Live
- Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… Affliction
- Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times... Damned
- When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry… Awhile
- Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. Always Assumes
- I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. All
- Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… Alone
- 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 much… Always Imagine
- The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… Abroad
- Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,… Always Live
- It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. Antipathy
- Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. Card
- Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we… Core
- Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. Elaborate
- Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can Butterflies
- Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. Bottom
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