229 Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

...somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with a warmth and sad beauty I'd never noticed before.

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

No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.”“What’s that?”“Never look in da rearview mirror.”“Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.“It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind.

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

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

There it is," he'd say reverentially. "The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

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