Marissa Stapley > Quotes

“No problem. People deserve second chances. And third chances. All people do is make mistakes. If we never forgave, we’d all be alone.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“The lottery is the greatest con of all time, kiddo. Proves our government is just like us, tricking people into thinking any dream can come true.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“The world’s like that. What matters in one moment, it doesn’t matter the next. Things that fall apart eventually come back together again. Everything passes. You can be sure of that.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Second chances, third, fourth. If we never forgave, we’d all be alone,”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“The world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Something stirred inside her that felt like hope — the kind of hope a lottery ticket held just before you checked its numbers.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“The world’s like that. What matters in one moment, it doesn’t matter the next. Things that fall apart eventually come back together again.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.” The duty of life.”
― Marissa Stapley, Things to Do When It's Raining

“Unfortunately the heart doesn’t often give a shit what the mind has to say to it.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Everyone in the world has been damaged in some way.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“Everything ends, eventually. You can’t be afraid of that, because that’s just life, and you have to live it, find the beauty in it, stop worrying all the time about silly things like whether it might rain and focus on what’s important, like whether the people you love know how much you love them, whether you can still picture the people you’ve lost when you close your eyes at night, and whether you remembered to check on the river when you walked past it that day, to make sure it was still flowing in the right direction, carrying your past, present and future together in one miraculous moment that will go on, always, with you or without you.”
― Marissa Stapley, Things to Do When It's Raining

“That was the beauty of it. That, right there, was the grift itself: that moment of hope, that quickening of pulse, the what if, what if it’s me, what if it’s my ticket, what would I do with all that money, who would I become?”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“True love, Johanna had learned at a very young age, had consequences. Happy endings always cost you something.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Last Resort

“Travel and tell no one. Live a true story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“Graffiti allowed a person to be somewhat famous, but in secret.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

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― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“There were things about him she didn’t know, but she would learn them all.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Lucky would see mothers and daughters out in the world and understand that not always, but sometimes and really quite often, a mother was a soft, safe, beautiful thing. She didn’t have that. And she ached for it.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“The entire point of celebrity is for people to be able to project their hopes, their dreams, their fantasies, onto canvases. Their unrequited love, their rabid hatred. Celebrities aren't real people. Jane knows this, because she is one.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“What good is lightning if you keep it in a bottle?”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“But not how to grift; that, I had to research. The world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. —Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata” February 1982 NEW YORK CITY Someone had left a baby outside the nunnery.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“She had read enough books about heroes and villains to know which side they were on.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Lightning in a bottle.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles

“[...] the average person has thirteen secrets that they live with-five of which they’ve never told a soul”
― Marissa Stapley, The Last Resort

“Mothers are supposed to be the wind for your kite, your soft place to land if you need it.”
― Marissa Stapley, The Lightning Bottles