“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph. ” — Marisha Pessl Happiness Copy Share Image
“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.” — Marisha Pessl Storytelling Copy Share Image
People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.” — Marisha Pessl Depleted Copy Share Image
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.” — Marisha Pessl Character Copy Share Image
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the… — Marisha Pessl Character Copy Share Image
But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl Behavior Copy Share Image
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. — Marisha Pessl Ideas Copy Share Image
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“But it could also be an enslavement, a hell , to keep searching for the enchanted , keep plunging down, down to… — Marisha Pessl Mermaid Copy Share Image
Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in… — Marisha Pessl Blue Copy Share Image
“Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled… — Marisha Pessl Feminism 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… — Marisha Pessl America 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
Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called… — Marisha Pessl Health 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
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a… — Marisha Pessl Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to… — Marisha Pessl Free time Copy Share Image
“The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast… — Marisha Pessl Books Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Greek tragedy 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 Advice Copy Share Image
“It's one of these juvenile therapy scams,” he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper.… — Marisha Pessl Death Copy Share Image
“It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.” — Marisha Pessl Cinema Copy Share Image
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. — Marisha Pessl Changing your life Copy Share Image
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the… — Marisha Pessl Activism Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.” — Marisha Pessl Sentiments Copy Share Image
“You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your… — Marisha Pessl Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“We were freshman, taking her film class, and we'd spend hours after school sitting in her classroom talking about any old thing—life,… — Marisha Pessl Classroom Copy Share Image
