People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be so cruel.… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
“Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years —" "Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share
