“It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.” — Marisha Pessl Cinema Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Altitude 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 Life Copy Share Image
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.” — Marisha Pessl Character 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
“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.” — Marisha Pessl Apathetic 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
“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 Crazy Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Chasing Copy Share Image
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three… — Marisha Pessl Hundred 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 Suffered Scoliosis 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 Clay 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 Appearance 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
“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
“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
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 Buttons Copy Share Image
“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us… — Marisha Pessl Darkness 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 Afternoon 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
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
“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 Dad Said 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 Fans Weep Copy Share Image
“For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered… — Marisha Pessl Assembly line 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
“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing… — Marisha Pessl Deserted Islands Copy Share Image
“Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit… — Marisha Pessl Darkness 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
“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
“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
“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
![“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you…” quote by Marisha Pessl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a47/marisha-pessl-1802_darkness_there-it-is-he-d-say-reverentially-the-b_1014896.jpg)
