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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
“It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were… — Marisha Pessl Cruelest Copy Share Image
“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.” — Marisha Pessl Chasing 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
“The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing … it never stops.” — Marisha Pessl Changing Copy Share Image
“They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph. ” — Marisha Pessl Happiness Copy Share Image
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
May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand,… — Marisha Pessl Fighting 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 Grand theft auto Copy Share Image
“You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and… — Marisha Pessl Know 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 Curse 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 Ceremony 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
“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
“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 America 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 Criminals 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
She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Afternoon 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
“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 Fans Weep 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
“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 Dad Said 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
“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.” — Marisha Pessl Apathetic 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 Crazy 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
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? — Marisha Pessl Afraid 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
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.” — Marisha Pessl Character 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 Exhausting Copy Share Image
“This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in… — Marisha Pessl 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
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he… — Marisha Pessl America Copy Share Image
Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can… — Marisha Pessl Artist 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 Cutting Copy Share Image
Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you… — Marisha Pessl Boxes 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
“It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people,… — Marisha Pessl Childlike Copy Share Image
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl Arrogance 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 has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you…” quote by Marisha Pessl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a47/marisha-pessl-1802_darkness_there-it-is-he-d-say-reverentially-the-b_1014896.jpg)
