Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of clichรฉ 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 PesslJust when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
Marisha PesslSometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)
Marisha PesslJuliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.
Marisha Pessl