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A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.Marisha Pessl
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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
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Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about."" Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.Marisha Pessl
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How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.Marisha Pessl
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I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday, ' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.Marisha Pessl
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Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last. .Marisha Pessl
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...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.Marisha Pessl
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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -Marisha Pessl
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One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow- A Collector's Dream.Marisha Pessl
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Always live your life with your biography in mind.Marisha Pessl
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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.Marisha Pessl