Character Quote by Marisha Pessl

“It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.”

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“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…

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“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 trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain,…

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“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.…

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

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“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an…

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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 money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you…

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“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 abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It Was (and getting it all wrong). ... "The act of being personally misconstrued," Dad said, "informed to one's face one is no more complex than…

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“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.”

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Always live your life with your biography in mind.

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

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“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…

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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

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