“ Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. Marisha Pessl
“ Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the… Marisha Pessl
“ Moe was a triple threat.He could sing, dance, and act?She shook her head. He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag. Marisha Pessl
“ May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have… Marisha Pessl
“ It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser. Marisha Pessl
“ It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning a… Marisha Pessl
“ It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an end… Marisha Pessl
“ I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. Marisha Pessl
“ I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn’t so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge… Marisha Pessl
“ He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements. Marisha Pessl
“ Grab what you can and fight your way to a lifeboat.’ Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, the… Marisha Pessl
“ For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered was the one from Sparta Elementary in which I'd sat, knees glued together, in fro… Marisha Pessl
“ 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
“ 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. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one… Marisha Pessl
“ But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. Marisha Pessl
“ But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. Marisha Pessl
“ Because I saw, suddenly, how it would always be for me, Sam's life unfolding like slides in an old projector I'd always be clicking through in the dark, stunning leaps forward in time--but never the u… Marisha Pessl
“ America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism,not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation thatgentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she… Marisha Pessl
“ You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and make jokes but it's just a cover for the fact that you're scared. Marisha Pessl
“ With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who iLoved you. Marisha Pessl
