Marisha Pessl, Special Topics In Calamity Physics Quotes

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

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.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

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.

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.