“I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.” — Marisha Pessl Crush Copy Share Image
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And… — Marisha Pessl Hate Copy Share Image
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but… — Marisha Pessl Depth Copy Share Image
Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl Arrogance 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
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you… — Marisha Pessl Prison Copy Share Image
“I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent wasteoid who imagines… — Marisha Pessl Apes 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
“It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people,… — Marisha Pessl Childlike 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 America Copy Share Image
“Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled… — Marisha Pessl Feminism Copy Share Image
Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called… — Marisha Pessl Health Copy Share Image
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When… — Marisha Pessl Affair Copy Share Image
“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows… — Marisha Pessl Death Copy Share Image
“It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“That's what I've always found so pathetic about fans . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the… — Marisha Pessl 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
“[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
“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
“For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered… — Marisha Pessl Assembly line Copy Share Image
“You know what Confucius said?” “Remind me.” “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ” — Marisha Pessl Confucius Copy Share Image
“Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. — Marisha Pessl Humanity 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 Island 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 Copy Share Image
Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can… — Marisha Pessl Artist 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 Copy Share Image
“This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in… — Marisha Pessl Devil 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 Copy Share Image
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he… — Marisha Pessl America Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Affliction 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Connie Madison Parker, age 36, on Merchandise: "You got to put your goods on display, babe. Otherwise, not only will the boys… — Marisha Pessl East texas Copy Share Image
“My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a… — Marisha Pessl Psychology 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
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