God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes…

Marisha Pessl
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God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to. ✨ Marisha Pessl (2006). Special Topics in Calamity Physics, p.498, Penguin
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, … ▶
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. ✨ Marisha Pessl (2006). Special Topics in Calamity Physics, p.160, Pengu … ▶
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning … ▶

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