“ It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. Marisha Pessl
“ It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the handle-jawed thugs wielding the tattoo guns looked like ink was just a side jo… Marisha Pessl
“ It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly… Marisha Pessl
“ I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are Marisha Pessl
“ I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it’s there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there. Marisha Pessl
“ Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly. Marisha Pessl
“ The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. Marisha Pessl
“ Suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.… Marisha Pessl
“ . .perhaps she figured I was already a highly forgiving person, that I did my best to treat shortcomings like hobos I'd found dozing on my porch: take them in and maybe they'll work for you. Marisha Pessl
“ When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like , and . It was something that got you through the tough times, which any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity.… Marisha Pessl
“ The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one d… Marisha Pessl
“ Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial.Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, JudgmentDay resistant. Amazing value at just $299. And consider th… Marisha Pessl
“ My films are just stories, but that’s all we have, the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. When you talk to the elderly, men and women at the end of their lives, you see that’s w… Marisha Pessl
“ Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean. Marisha Pessl
“ Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging o… Marisha Pessl
“ 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
