“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
“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered… — Marisha Pessl Suffered Scoliosis 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 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
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
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this… — Marisha Pessl Appearance Copy Share Image
It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything… — Marisha Pessl Darkness 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
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
“I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break… — Marisha Pessl Sanity 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
“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the… — Marisha Pessl Family Copy Share Image
“Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out… — Marisha Pessl Body image 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
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Ignorant Copy Share Image
“(the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)” — Marisha Pessl Boston tea party Copy Share Image
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant Copy Share Image
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. — Marisha Pessl Bottom Copy Share Image
“Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.” — Marisha Pessl Personal demons Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can’t they?” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl Antipathy Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.” — Marisha Pessl Room Copy Share Image
“One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.” — Marisha Pessl Crisis Copy Share Image
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely… — Marisha Pessl Age Copy Share Image
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the… — Marisha Pessl Character Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the… — Marisha Pessl Dread Copy Share Image
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. — Marisha Pessl Ideas Copy Share Image
“No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling!… — Marisha Pessl Education Copy Share Image
“Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes… — Marisha Pessl Be-afraid 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)
