What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl Bombs Copy Share Image
“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.” — Marisha Pessl Life Copy Share Image
“Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled… — Marisha Pessl Friday night Copy Share Image
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah… — Marisha Pessl Dog Copy Share Image
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three… — Marisha Pessl Hundred Copy Share Image
“Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).” — Marisha Pessl Humourous Copy Share Image
...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. — Marisha Pessl Humanity Copy Share Image
“It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.” — Marisha Pessl Cinema 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
“Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some… — Marisha Pessl Couple Copy Share Image
“The Shadow is what people are hunting throughout the tale. Or else it can dog the hero, refusing to leave him alone.… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.” — Marisha Pessl Humor Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people,… — Marisha Pessl Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows… — Marisha Pessl Death Copy Share Image
“I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.” — Marisha Pessl Crush 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 Copy Share Image
“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us… — Marisha Pessl Darkness 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
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back… — Marisha Pessl Buttons Copy Share Image
“They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill… — Marisha Pessl Marriage Copy Share Image
“Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called… — Marisha Pessl Health Copy Share Image
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.” — Marisha Pessl Character Copy Share Image
