Marisha Pessl Short Quotes

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It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'.

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People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

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Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

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It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

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It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

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

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You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

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Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

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What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

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People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

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It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

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But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

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What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

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The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

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I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

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Deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

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Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

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Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

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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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Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

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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...

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Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

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