“ Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even c… Marisha Pessl
“ Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs. Marisha Pessl
“ Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I'd kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, wh… Marisha Pessl
“ It's not fair.It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning. Marisha Pessl
“ How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon (Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long, wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with… Marisha Pessl
“ That's what I've always found so pathetic about . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to anything with that inspiration, like enriching… Marisha Pessl
“ Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-… Marisha Pessl
“ Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic. 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. Marisha Pessl
“ If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere betweenThe Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays during Fall Semesterat Hannah's were just that, or, to quote one of Dad's tr… Marisha Pessl
“ Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, for, everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything… Marisha Pessl
“ Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying.Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,but at the very least you will be living grandly. Marisha Pessl
“ The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably. Marisha Pessl
