"It felt as if we'd been to war……" — Marisha Pessl
"It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would."
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Marisha Pessl
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77 Quotes by Marisha Pessl
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to…
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