“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
“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
“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
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Dark 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 Scuba diving 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… — Marisha Pessl Believe 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 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 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
“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 Human race Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Beaten Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Deus-ex-machina 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 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
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Affliction 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
“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing… — Marisha Pessl 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
It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’. — Marisha Pessl America 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
“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
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
“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
