“(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 Aids Copy Share Image
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. — Marisha Pessl Bottom Copy Share Image
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Altitude 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 Astonishing 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 Boring 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 Dread 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
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 Charles 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
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually… — Marisha Pessl Adults 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 Curiosity 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 Biographies 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
“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
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
“ 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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
