Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Born Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had… — Marisha Pessl Beautiful Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Clear water 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
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
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it… — Marisha Pessl Character 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Moe was a triple threat.” “He could sing, dance, and act?” She shook her head. “He could speak Armenian, saddle break a… — Marisha Pessl Triple-threat 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
“ L'Avventura ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be… — Marisha Pessl Alive Copy Share Image
People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl Bus Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. — Marisha Pessl Courage 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 Copy Share Image
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant 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
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
“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
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have… — Marisha Pessl Biographies 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
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
“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
“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
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you… — Marisha Pessl Set free Copy Share Image
