“ Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre. Marisha Pessl
“ Because he was an asshole. I’m not sayin’ nothin’ I wouldn’t say to his face. He embraced his assholeness. Marisha Pessl
“ We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read. Marisha Pessl
“ The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They’d probably stay that way unless Ap… Marisha Pessl
“ My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a dark pulsing myth and an acceptable reality.... The explanations were like two… Marisha Pessl
“ I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there’d be no limit to the fiends I… Marisha Pessl
“ I hate how the people who really you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you stick around. Marisha Pessl
“ When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk. Marisha Pessl
“ When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light travel… Marisha Pessl
