Marisha Pessl Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl Famous Quotes & Sayings
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God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor.
Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.
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.
Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
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 ...
Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
... deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.
Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.
But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
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.
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.
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.
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
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.
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).
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.
Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.
The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
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?
What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
- Hannah Schneider
- Hannah Schneider
There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.
The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region.
Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?
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.
I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.
Infinitely delayed.
Infinitely delayed.
The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.