Marisha Pessl Quotes

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

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.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so 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.

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, strive for, wound everything around you.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

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.

To be next to her was to have everything.

People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

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.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I misse

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

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.