“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.” — Marisha Pessl Life Copy Share Image
It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’. — Marisha Pessl America Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl 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 Copy Share Image
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to. — Marisha Pessl Chaos 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 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
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl Behavior 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 Copy Share Image
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. — Marisha Pessl 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 Comic 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
“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
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Abstract Copy Share Image
“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be… — Marisha Pessl Hope 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 Copy Share Image
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested… — Marisha Pessl Adidas 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
“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
“ 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
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl 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
“The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast… — Marisha Pessl Books 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 Copy Share Image
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a… — Marisha Pessl Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to… — Marisha Pessl Free time Copy Share Image
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.” — Marisha Pessl Brilliant Copy Share Image
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.” — Marisha Pessl Character 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
“It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.” — Marisha Pessl Cinema Copy Share Image
People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.” — Marisha Pessl Storytelling Copy Share Image
