Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

Dies

Diving

Order

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

Monstrous

People

…I couldn’t let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

America

Letting Go

Lonely

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

Humanity

Secret

Spares

Always live your life with your biography in mind,” Dad was fond of saying. “Naturally, it won’t be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Dad

Live Your Life

Mind

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Believe

Evil

Simple

Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall.

Betrayal

Empires

Fall

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

Narrative Structure

School

Sweet

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.

Attitude

Book

People

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind’s Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic–their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)–and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.

Dad

Mistake

Nice

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Bending

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Butterfly

Changing Your Life

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Color

Crazy

Cutting

Dad

Desert

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Differences

Diving

Dog

Dove

Earth

Empires

Enlightenment

Enough

Epic

Evil

Eye

Fall

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Forever

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Greek

Hard

Havens

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House

Hug

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Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

…I couldn’t let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

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

Always live your life with your biography in mind,” Dad was fond of saying. “Naturally, it won’t be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Betrayal isn’t ridiculous. It’s the reason empires fall.

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.

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