It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’. — Marisha Pessl America Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Altitude Copy Share Image
What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? — Marisha Pessl Difference Copy Share Image
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah… — Marisha Pessl Dog Copy Share Image
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant Copy Share Image
“It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on… — Marisha Pessl Plowing Copy Share Image
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Civilized Copy Share Image
“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.” — Marisha Pessl Carnations Copy Share Image
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. — Marisha Pessl Defeated Copy Share Image
“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.” — Marisha Pessl Life Copy Share Image
“Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your… — Marisha Pessl Dreams Copy Share Image
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and… — Marisha Pessl Blur 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
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it… — Marisha Pessl Character Copy Share Image
“...somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it… — Marisha Pessl Beauty 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
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Adidas Copy Share Image
“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be… — Marisha Pessl Hope 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 Atom bomb Copy Share Image
“The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung… — Marisha Pessl Hugged Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Born 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
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 Able 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
“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
“As far as one journeys, as much as a man sees, from the turrets of the Taj Mahal to the Siberian wilds,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which… — Marisha Pessl Bad guy Copy Share Image
“The Shadow is what people are hunting throughout the tale. Or else it can dog the hero, refusing to leave him alone.… — Marisha Pessl Shadow 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
“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
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 Bases 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
