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  1. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn't me.
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  2. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours.
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  3. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you.
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  4. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality," wrote Albert Pooley in The Imperial Consort of the Dairy Queen {1981, p. 233}.
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  5. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    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.
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  6. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    You know what Confucius said?""Remind me"."Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"
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  7. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I'd 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, down pours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.
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  8. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    A wife sets the ambience of a man's life.
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  9. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    There it is," he'd say reverentially. "The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe.
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  10. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
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  11. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold.
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  12. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    You are a magnificent and powerful person," I said.
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