...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. — Marisha Pessl Humanity Copy Share Image
“Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.” — Marisha Pessl Humor 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
“I didn’t want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered… — 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
“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 hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that… — Marisha Pessl Book Copy Share Image
“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the… — Marisha Pessl Family Copy Share Image
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break… — Marisha Pessl Sanity Copy Share Image
“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might… — Marisha Pessl Criminals 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
“My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a… — Marisha Pessl Psychology Copy Share Image
“Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial. Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, Judgment… — Marisha Pessl Judgment day Copy Share Image
“The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn’t notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and… — Marisha Pessl Day and night Copy Share Image
“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a… — Marisha Pessl Analysis 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 Death Copy Share Image
“It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When… — Marisha Pessl Affair 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 Beauty 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
“She was inches from my face, really squinting , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected… — Marisha Pessl Squinting 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 Butterfly Copy Share Image
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl Bombs Copy Share Image
“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because… — Marisha Pessl Growing up Copy Share Image
Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell… — Marisha Pessl After school Copy Share Image
It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything… — Marisha Pessl Darkness Copy Share Image
“Have you seen the world lately, McGrath? The cruelty, the lack of connection? If you're an artist, I'm sure you can't help… — Marisha Pessl Art Copy Share Image
“No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.” “What’s that?” “Never look in da rearview mirror.” “Never? " We drifted… — Marisha Pessl Hindsight Copy Share Image
“It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the… — Marisha Pessl Easy rider 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
“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 Couple Copy Share Image
“That's what I've always found so pathetic about fans . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out… — Marisha Pessl Body image Copy Share Image
