Quote by Marisha Pessl Download Open image ““A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.”” — Marisha Pessl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases — sick from worry, the anticipation of crisis, and terribly sick from the awful burden of his own weight. He had known for years that when the time came, when he would finally land and begin… — Walter Tevis Copy Share
“My coworker at very high altitude died from colon cancer and another coworker died from throat cancer.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I spent a decade of my life mal-acclimatizing to high altitude mountains in professional astronomy and now I am disabled with a wide variety… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
“I was always mystified why I never saw any cases of HAPE and HACE in very high altitude workers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“That’s when he’d run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and… — Carmen Amato 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
