Character Quote by Marisha Pessl

“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer…

— Marisha Pessl

“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 no use…

— Marisha Pessl

“But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be so cruel.…

— Marisha Pessl

“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.”

— Marisha Pessl

“ Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an…

— Marisha Pessl

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how…

— Marisha Pessl

“It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of…

— Marisha Pessl

“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.”

— Marisha Pessl

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

— Marisha Pessl

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There…

— Marisha Pessl

“Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve…

— Marisha Pessl

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

— Marisha Pessl