Marisha Pessl Quotes

Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just . It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul...

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...

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 trying to teach them anything new. They're closed for business even thou...

I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisl...

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Look around. It's almost gone.If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood.

' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking ab...

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.

If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for. Banks tells me. But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existence. In...

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I missed it. They can send you to prison for that.He pushed his glasses back on his nose. I'm calling him Murad, a...

I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set him free. And he'd let it fly, that gorgeous blackbird of a lo...

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

You're mistaking love for perfection, I said. Real love when it's there? It's just

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.