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…

- Marisha Pessl

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick arou…

- 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, b…

- 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

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

- Marisha Pessl

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watc…

- 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 …

- Marisha Pessl

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the mo…

- Marisha Pessl

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and ho…

- Marisha Pessl