Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Marisha Pessl.
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.”
“Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's stillbanging Charles after all these years ""Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.”
“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.”
“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velsquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the l...”
“How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.”
“Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.”
“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”
“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”
“Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”
“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”
“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”
“Earlier People used to hate a lieSince now lie has become truth and truth has become a lie.They still hate a lie”
“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. ...”