Marisha Pessl Quotes

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.

I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

Being a mom has changed me forever.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

God, life changes faster than you think.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

As much as you plan your career and plan your life, there are events that will change everything 180 degrees, I’ve had multiple events like that. I always wanted to be a doctor and now I’m in the theater business. But these defining moments in your life are really what builds your character.

The things you think that really change your life a lot, don't.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

All the negativity that was once around me has turned into all this positivity.

My first idea before coming to TFC was to change my life.