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I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are
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She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights.
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God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor.
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Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.
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Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.
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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.
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Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
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You want the girl next door? Go next door!
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Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
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For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
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Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories.
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And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars.
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Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
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I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.
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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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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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But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
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Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not.
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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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Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.
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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
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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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It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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To be next to her was to have everything.
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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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Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's stillbanging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure. — Marisha Pessl
They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph.
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It was a fluke. But then, life is.
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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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It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'.
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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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Always live your life with your biography in mind.
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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.
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It's easy to be yourself in the dark.
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A wife sets the ambience of a man's life.
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It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.
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People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
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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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Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).
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Everyone smiles for a photograph.
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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.
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It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.
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Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.
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A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
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(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.
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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 haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
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There was something about her playing ... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
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She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.
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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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It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.
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All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.
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I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
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Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.
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What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
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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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One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
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How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.
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Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.
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Freak the ferocious out.
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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 — Marisha Pessl
There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.
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The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region.
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Is she sad? she asked.No, honey. She's lived-in. — Marisha Pessl
Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?
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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.
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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
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I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.Infinitely delayed. — Marisha Pessl
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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(the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)
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The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.
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The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
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Fuck you," she said, giggling. "And your little dog too.
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