What did Marisha Pessl mean by: It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. - Marisha Pessl Author Copy
+ People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Realizing, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ It’s funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Changing Your Life, Night, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ You journalists bulldoze life’s mysteries, ignorant of what you’re so ruthlessly turning up. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Ignorant, Journalist, Mystery, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Phone Calls, Phones, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they’re still good. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Band, Realizing, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Character, Dove, Inferno, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, you realize you’re standing on another trapdoor. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Realizing, Rocks, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
+ People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marisha Pessl, Behavior, Self, 0 - Marisha Pessl Author
Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated! - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. - William Carlos Williams Poet · USA
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned - Henry Timrod
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. - Grover Cleveland