“...watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of… — Marisha Pessl Comic Copy Share Image
“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn… — Marisha Pessl Gardening Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Brave Copy Share Image
Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in… — Marisha Pessl Blue Copy Share Image
“I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really… — Marisha Pessl Animal Copy Share Image
It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd… — Marisha Pessl Closest friends Copy Share Image
“So I would die in here. I’d leave my little life. I’d barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I’d… — Marisha Pessl Life Copy Share Image
“Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to the verbs to get or… — Marisha Pessl Bull Copy Share Image
“And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the… — Marisha Pessl Around the world 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 Life Copy Share Image
“When she opened up that closet and found you cowering in the corner, what did she do? You're still alive, aren't you?… — Marisha Pessl Gasped Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Greek tragedy Copy Share Image
“It's one of these juvenile therapy scams,” he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper.… — Marisha Pessl Death Copy Share Image
“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.” — Marisha Pessl Storytelling Copy Share Image
“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.” — Marisha Pessl Love Copy Share Image
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. — Marisha Pessl Changing your life Copy Share Image
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more… — Marisha Pessl Astonishing Copy Share Image
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the… — Marisha Pessl Activism Copy Share Image
It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't… — Marisha Pessl Ending Copy Share Image
“When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world… — Marisha Pessl World End Copy Share Image
“The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your… — Marisha Pessl Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“We were freshman, taking her film class, and we'd spend hours after school sitting in her classroom talking about any old thing—life,… — Marisha Pessl School Copy Share Image
“When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or… — Marisha Pessl Bible Copy Share Image
…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived. — Marisha Pessl Deep Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Able 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 Prison Copy Share Image
“Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a… — Marisha Pessl Fame and fortune Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Cases Copy Share Image
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that… — Marisha Pessl Book Copy Share Image
“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat—graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over—she was nevertheless… — Marisha Pessl Butterfly effect Copy Share Image
“Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial. Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, Judgment… — Marisha Pessl Judgment day Copy Share Image
“The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn’t notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and… — Marisha Pessl Day and night Copy Share Image
“It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though… — marisha Pessl Humor Copy Share Image
“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she… — Marisha Pessl Civil rights 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it’s there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never… — marisha pessl Island Copy Share Image
“You know what Confucius said?” “Remind me.” “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ” — Marisha Pessl Confucius Copy Share Image
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. — Marisha Pessl Bending Copy Share Image
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - — Marisha Pessl Foam Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Cards Copy Share Image
