"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."

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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.392, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Sea Quotes #Desert Quotes #Dry Quotes

“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin
“It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.”
“One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.”
“I'm really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren't, so I'm trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It's fun.”
“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

Source : Interveiw with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.”
“As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?”
“She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

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