You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“(the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)” — Marisha Pessl Boston tea party Copy Share Image
It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant Copy Share Image
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch… — Marisha Pessl Journalism Copy Share Image
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.” — Marisha Pessl Crisis 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 Age Copy Share Image
“One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a… — Marisha Pessl Adults Copy Share Image
“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.” — Marisha Pessl Carnations Copy Share Image
“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s… — Marisha Pessl English language Copy Share Image
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse… — Marisha Pessl Improvement Copy Share Image
“When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying , restorative and life-changing . It was something that "got… — Marisha Pessl Higher power Copy Share Image
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“...watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of… — Marisha Pessl Comic Copy Share Image
“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn… — Marisha Pessl Gardening 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Brave Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious… — Marisha Pessl Grand theft auto Copy Share Image
“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the… — Marisha Pessl Curse Copy Share Image
“I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled… — Marisha Pessl Great leader Copy Share Image
“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages… — Marisha Pessl Children Copy Share Image
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."… — Marisha Pessl Beach house Copy Share Image
“Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to the verbs to get or… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the… — Marisha Pessl Around the world Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had… — Marisha Pessl Beautiful Copy Share Image
“ L'Avventura ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be… — Marisha Pessl Alive Copy Share Image
“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… — Marisha Pessl Life Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.” — Marisha Pessl Personal demons Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing … it never stops.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
