Marisha Pessl: Living

Marisha Pessl is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”

Marisha Pessl

Source: Night Film

“It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.”

Marisha Pessl

Source: Night Film

“…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

Source: Night Film

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

Marisha Pessl

Source: Night Film

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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