Marisha Pessl Quotes - Page 4

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• Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

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  Eye, Cutting, Looks

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• …how monstrous the people you loved could be.

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  People, Monstrous

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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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  Hot, Kind, Aids

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

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  Self, People, Behavior

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

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  Teenager, Vacuums, Foam

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.130, Penguin

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

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  Differences

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Blue, Sky

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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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  Night, Forever, Changing Your Life

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.149, Random House

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