“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the… — Marisha Pessl 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 Copy Share Image
“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers… — 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 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
“Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious… — Marisha Pessl 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 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 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 gentlemen prefer… — Marisha Pessl 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 no use… — Marisha Pessl 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 so cruel.… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how… — Marisha Pessl 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 mistake of… — 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 from scoliosis.” — Marisha Pessl 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 light. There… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
