“ 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 of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and… Marisha Pessl
“ When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous. 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
“ So I would die in here. I’d leave my little life.I’d barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I’d only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it… Marisha Pessl
“ She was inches from my face, really , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected before, an ocean filled with strings of unnamed islands. Marisha Pessl
“ People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. Marisha Pessl
“ Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking… Marisha Pessl
“ Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there’s not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can’t help but feel there’s ne… Marisha Pessl
“ Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times... Marisha Pessl
“ It’s a terrible thing, to lie. It’s a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it. She Marisha Pessl
“ I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable,… Marisha Pessl
“ His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves. Marisha Pessl
“ Dad on Child-rearing: There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages of Exploration: 'To be still is to be stupid. To be stupid is… Marisha Pessl
“ Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there wer… Marisha Pessl
“ Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams? Marisha Pessl
“ Watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting f… Marisha Pessl
“ The boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious . Marisha Pessl
“ The territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan’s tribal region. Marisha Pessl
“ You know what Confucius said?Remind me.Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves Marisha Pessl
“ The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed… Marisha Pessl
