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Marisha Pessl quotes: I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are
Marisha Pessl quotes: She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights. She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights.
Marisha Pessl quotes: God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor. God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness. Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt. Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.
Marisha Pessl quotes: I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there. I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation. Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
Marisha Pessl quotes: We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
Marisha Pessl quotes: You want the girl next door? Go next door! You want the girl next door? Go next door!
Marisha Pessl quotes: Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is. Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
Marisha Pessl quotes: For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories. Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories.
Marisha Pessl quotes: And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars. And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars.
Marisha Pessl quotes: To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful. To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
Marisha Pessl quotes: I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount. I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The notes weren't played," he went on, "They were poured from a Grecian urn. The notes weren't played," he went on, "They were poured from a Grecian urn.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place. It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
Marisha Pessl quotes: But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not.
Marisha Pessl quotes: 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 ... 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 ...
Marisha Pessl quotes: Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic. Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.
Marisha Pessl quotes: A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness. A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
Marisha Pessl quotes: I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall. Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
Marisha Pessl quotes: To be next to her was to have everything. To be next to her was to have everything.
Marisha Pessl quotes: ... deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived. ... deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's stillbanging Charles after all these years - ""Like a screen in a tornado. Sure. Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
Marisha Pessl quotes: They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph. They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It was a fluke. But then, life is. It was a fluke. But then, life is.
Marisha Pessl quotes: But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'. It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'.
Marisha Pessl quotes: There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Always live your life with your biography in mind. Always live your life with your biography in mind.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Dad's Theory of Arrogancethat everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. 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.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
Marisha Pessl quotes: When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end. When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.
Marisha Pessl quotes: His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves. His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation. Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's easy to be yourself in the dark. It's easy to be yourself in the dark.
Marisha Pessl quotes: A wife sets the ambience of a man's life. A wife sets the ambience of a man's life.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life. It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it. The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.
Marisha Pessl quotes: People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
Marisha Pessl quotes: This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments. This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to. Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
Marisha Pessl quotes: We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things
Marisha Pessl quotes: Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days). Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).
Marisha Pessl quotes: Everyone smiles for a photograph. Everyone smiles for a photograph.
Marisha Pessl quotes: When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk. When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while. It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes. Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.
Marisha Pessl quotes: A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny
Marisha Pessl quotes: (Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones. (Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.
Marisha Pessl quotes: I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Marisha Pessl quotes: You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
Marisha Pessl quotes: There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form. There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
Marisha Pessl quotes: She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree. She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no. It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.
Marisha Pessl quotes: All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence. All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.
Marisha Pessl quotes: I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha Pessl quotes: Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams? Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams?
Marisha Pessl quotes: Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone. Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.
Marisha Pessl quotes: What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
Marisha Pessl quotes: What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
Marisha Pessl quotes: One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools. One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
Marisha Pessl quotes: People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
Marisha Pessl quotes: How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE. Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Freak the ferocious out. Freak the ferocious out.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.- Hannah Schneider Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
- Hannah Schneider
Marisha Pessl quotes: I think I've heard this story before. He died alone?""Everyone dies alone. I think I've heard this story before. He died alone?"
"Everyone dies alone.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
Marisha Pessl quotes: There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy. There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region. The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Is she sad? she asked.No, honey. She's lived-in. Is she sad? she asked.
No, honey. She's lived-in.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they? Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser. It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Marisha Pessl quotes: I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.Infinitely delayed. I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.
Infinitely delayed.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
Marisha Pessl quotes: (the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys) (the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)
Marisha Pessl quotes: The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea. The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.
Marisha Pessl quotes: The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health. The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
Marisha Pessl quotes: Fuck you," she said, giggling. "And your little dog too. Fuck you," she said, giggling. "And your little dog too.
Marisha Pessl quotes: They're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial. They're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.
Marisha Pessl quotes: It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it. It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.

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