We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: micro-drop



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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: character



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Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: trapdoor



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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.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: evil



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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.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: nuclear



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Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: dark-chamber-of-the-heart



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...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: gift-of-life



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You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: journalists



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Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: quagmire



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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Marisha Pessl

Tags: women



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