“Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.” — Marisha Pessl Earth friendly 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 Long island 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
“Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic.” — Marisha Pessl 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 Diving 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
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - — Marisha Pessl Foam 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
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
“One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.” — Marisha Pessl Time 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
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
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 Ends Copy Share Image
Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around… — Marisha Pessl Hot 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 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
“(the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)” — Marisha Pessl Boston tea party 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
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See… — Marisha Pessl First time 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
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
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Ignorant Copy Share Image
“You know what Confucius said?” “Remind me.” “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ” — Marisha Pessl Revenge Dig Two Graves Copy Share Image
