It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl Antipathy Copy Share Image
“Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your… — Marisha Pessl Dreams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can’t they?” — Marisha Pessl Surprise Copy Share Image
“It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on… — Marisha Pessl 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
“There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch… — Marisha Pessl Journalism Copy Share Image
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? — 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
It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything… — Marisha Pessl Darkness Copy Share Image
“Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some… — Marisha Pessl Couple 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 Copy Share Image
“No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.” “What’s that?” “Never look in da rearview mirror.” “Never? " We drifted… — Marisha Pessl Hindsight Copy Share Image
“It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the… — Marisha Pessl Easy rider Copy Share Image
“Have you seen the world lately, McGrath? The cruelty, the lack of connection? If you're an artist, I'm sure you can't help… — Marisha Pessl Art Copy Share Image
“If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere between The Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays… — Marisha Pessl Golden age 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
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."… — Marisha Pessl Beach house 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 Copy Share Image
“As far as one journeys, as much as a man sees, from the turrets of the Taj Mahal to the Siberian wilds,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that… — Marisha Pessl Atom bomb 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 Body image 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 Copy Share Image
“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us… — Marisha Pessl Darkness Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.” — Marisha Pessl Humor Copy Share Image
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“...they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because… — Marisha Pessl Growing up Copy Share Image
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl Bombs Copy Share Image
Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell… — Marisha Pessl After school 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 Copy Share Image
“She was inches from my face, really squinting , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected… — Marisha Pessl Squinting 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 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
“There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don’t worry, people are still fucking crazy.” — Marisha Pessl 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 Copy Share Image
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
![“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you…” quote by Marisha Pessl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/marisha-pessl-1802_darkness_there-it-is-he-d-say-reverentially-the-b_1014896.jpg)
