“ 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… Marisha Pessl
“ 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… 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 trying to teach them anything new. They're closed for business even thou… Marisha Pessl
“ 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… Marisha Pessl
“ There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form. Marisha Pessl
“ Look around. It's almost gone.If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood. Marisha Pessl
“ ' 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… Marisha Pessl
“ One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream. Marisha Pessl
“ I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount. Marisha Pessl
“ Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes. Marisha Pessl
“ 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… Marisha Pessl
“ A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements. Marisha Pessl
“ 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… Marisha Pessl
“ 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… Marisha Pessl
