You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Ignorant Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Beaten Copy Share Image
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. — Marisha Pessl Band Copy Share Image
It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’. — Marisha Pessl America Copy Share Image
“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.” — Marisha Pessl Life 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
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Civilized 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 Flee 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
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse… — Marisha Pessl Improvement Copy Share Image
“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s… — Marisha Pessl English language 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
“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.” — Marisha Pessl Carnations Copy Share Image
“One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.” — Marisha Pessl Crisis Copy Share Image
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely… — Marisha Pessl Age Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to… — Marisha Pessl Book 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
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
“No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling!… — Marisha Pessl Education 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
“Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes… — Marisha Pessl Be-afraid 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
“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
“Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to the verbs to get or… — Marisha Pessl Bull 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
“And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the… — Marisha Pessl Around the world 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
“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
It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd… — Marisha Pessl Closest friends 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
