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Marisha Pessl quotes - page 2
...deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.
Marisha Pessl
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
Marisha Pessl
...how monstrous the people you loved could be.
Marisha Pessl
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Marisha Pessl
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
Marisha Pessl
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
Marisha Pessl
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
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
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
Marisha Pessl
It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.
Marisha Pessl
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
Marisha Pessl
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Marisha Pessl
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