“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“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, quote from Night Film
“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“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, quote from Night Film
“It's not fair."
"It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from 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, quote from Night Film
“Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from 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, quote from Night Film
“…how monstrous the people you loved could be.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“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, quote from 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, quote from Night Film
“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“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, quote from Night Film
“...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“To be next to her was to have everything.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
“But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Night Film
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“More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac”
― Thomas Sowell, quote from The Quest for Cosmic Justice
“يقال إنما تعرف الأمم بسجونها،إذ ينبغي الحكم على أمة ما من خلال معاملتهالأدنى مواطنيهاوليس لأرقاهم.”
― Nelson Mandela, quote from Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“We're all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren't.”
― Emma Hooper, quote from Etta and Otto and Russell and James
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe is some sense must have known that we were coming”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“I drove five hours to see you once and I'll do it again and again and again if I have to. Just...I want to be with you. Wherever you decide to go, I'll come find you.”
― Dahlia Adler, quote from Just Visiting
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