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Marisha Pessl Quotes

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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) ...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars  (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  (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  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody’s sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody’s surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)  (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  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) ... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s when all the real things were said  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Occasionally when I’m procrastinating writing, I’ll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you’d never normally hear of  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. ‘Lolita’ is that book for me. Nabokov’s love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) It’s a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they’re familiar with.  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) When I’m creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) To be next to her was to have everything  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Freak the ferocious out  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) …how monstrous the people you loved could be  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) It’s easy to be yourself in the dark  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Always live your life with your biography in mind  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) You journalists bulldoze life’s mysteries, ignorant of what you’re so ruthlessly turning up  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there’s not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can’t help but feel there’s new possibilities out there  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) It’s funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others  (Marisha Pessl Quotes) When I’m creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words  (Marisha Pessl Quotes)
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