Marisha Pessl Quotes

“Always live your life with your biography in mind.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rockstar, trust the good girl. That's never their only story.”
― Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake

“I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?”
― Night Film

“You're mistaking love for perfection," I said. "Real love when it's there? It's just there. It's a metal folding chair.”
― Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake

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

“The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.”
― Marisha Pessl