…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: monstrous



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Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: personal-demons



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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.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: possibilities



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No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.”
“What’s that?”
“Never look in da rearview mirror.”
“Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.
“It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: hindsight



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Everyone smiles for a photograph.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: say-cheese



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

Marisha Pessl

Tags: lead-the-hounds



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When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: quenching



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The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: fickle-truth



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This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: diy-devil-worship



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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.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: dogs-body



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