“Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to the verbs to get or… — Marisha Pessl Taking charge 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
“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
“Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.” — Marisha Pessl Personal demons 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
“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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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 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
“...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 Curiosity 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
“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
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
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl Antipathy Copy Share Image
Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can — Marisha Pessl Butterfly 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
“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
“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
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
