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I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are — Marisha Pessl

She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights. — Marisha Pessl

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

Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt. — 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

Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation. — Marisha Pessl

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. — Marisha Pessl

You want the girl next door? Go next door! — Marisha Pessl

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is. — Marisha Pessl

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. — Marisha Pessl

Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories. — Marisha Pessl

And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars. — Marisha Pessl

To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful. — Marisha Pessl

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can — Marisha Pessl

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount. — Marisha Pessl

The notes weren't played," he went on, "They were poured from a Grecian urn. — Marisha Pessl

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place. — Marisha Pessl

But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. — Marisha Pessl

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl

Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. — 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

Somewhere in a woman's room there is always something, an object, a detail, that is her, wholly and unapologetic. — Marisha Pessl

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness. — Marisha Pessl

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - — Marisha Pessl

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. — Marisha Pessl

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. — Marisha Pessl

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall. — Marisha Pessl

To be next to her was to have everything. — Marisha Pessl

... deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived. — Marisha Pessl

Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still
banging Charles after all these years - "
"Like a screen in a tornado. Sure. — Marisha Pessl

They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph. — Marisha Pessl

It was a fluke. But then, life is. — Marisha Pessl

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. — Marisha Pessl

It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'. — Marisha Pessl

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women. — Marisha Pessl

Always live your life with your biography in mind. — Marisha Pessl

Dad's Theory of Arrogance
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect. — Marisha Pessl

When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end. — Marisha Pessl

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

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation. — Marisha Pessl

It's easy to be yourself in the dark. — Marisha Pessl

A wife sets the ambience of a man's life. — Marisha Pessl

It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life. — Marisha Pessl

The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it. — Marisha Pessl

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl

This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments. — Marisha Pessl

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to. — Marisha Pessl

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things — Marisha Pessl

Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days). — Marisha Pessl

Everyone smiles for a photograph. — 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

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. — Marisha Pessl

It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while. — Marisha Pessl

Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes. — Marisha Pessl

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

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny — Marisha Pessl

(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones. — Marisha Pessl

The deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. — Marisha Pessl

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. — Marisha Pessl

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl

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

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

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. — Marisha Pessl

It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no. — Marisha Pessl

All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence. — Marisha Pessl

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

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

The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops. — Marisha Pessl

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? — Marisha Pessl

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off. — Marisha Pessl

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools. — Marisha Pessl

People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus. — Marisha Pessl

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. — Marisha Pessl

Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE. — Marisha Pessl

Freak the ferocious out. — Marisha Pessl

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
- Hannah Schneider — Marisha Pessl

I think I've heard this story before. He died alone?"
"Everyone dies alone. — Marisha Pessl

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. — Marisha Pessl

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy. — 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

Is she sad? she asked.
No, honey. She's lived-in. — Marisha Pessl

Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they? — Marisha Pessl

It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser. — Marisha Pessl

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. — Marisha Pessl

I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off.
Infinitely delayed. — Marisha Pessl

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. — Marisha Pessl

(the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys) — Marisha Pessl

The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea. — Marisha Pessl

The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health. — Marisha Pessl

Fuck you," she said, giggling. "And your little dog too. — Marisha Pessl

They're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial. — 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