Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Civilized 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
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
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And… — Marisha Pessl Hate 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
We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but… — Marisha Pessl Depth 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
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. — Marisha Pessl Band Copy Share Image
“The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it… — Marisha Pessl Hope 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 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 Late afternoon 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 Gift-of-life Copy Share Image
“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.” — Marisha Pessl Gardening Copy Share Image
“Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.” — 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 Answers 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 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 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
... 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
“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
“I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent wasteoid who imagines… — Marisha Pessl Guerrilla warfare 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
“I didn’t want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you… — Marisha Pessl Bad thing 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
