“ Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world--with mortal people doing mortal things, a fat… 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 was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down. Marisha Pessl
“ Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor. 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 much money they have, where you go to college, what… 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 abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It… Marisha Pessl
“ It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim back the plants, but every one of us is just days away from a wild jungle. And… Marisha Pessl
“ Is man's destiny determined by the vicissitudes of environment or free will? I argue that it is free will, because what we think, what we dwell upon in our heads, whether it be fears or dreams, has a… Marisha Pessl
“ Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn’t me. Marisha Pessl
“ I took a step inside to get a better look and realized the man was actually Christ, the way he appeared in Sunday-school classrooms: milky complexion, starched blue dressing gown, a beard trimmed as p… Marisha Pessl
“ I think I repeated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in my head at least one thousand times: the mathematical product of the combined uncertainties of concurrent measurements of position and moment… Marisha Pessl
“ I miss him every single day, he said. I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around. Marisha Pessl
“ Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones. Marisha Pessl
“ What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? Marisha Pessl
“ We’re living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Marisha Pessl
“ We were freshman, taking her film class, and we'd spend hours after school sitting in her classroom talking about any old thing—life, sex, Forrest Gump. Marisha Pessl
“ This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments. Marisha Pessl
“ There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, . Marisha Pessl
“ There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold. Marisha Pessl
“ There it is, he'd say reverentially. The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe. Marisha Pessl
