Marisha Pessl Quotes

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

But you base everything on people you know.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].

I believe love opens people up.

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me."