Top 25 Quotes by Marisha Pessl of 83 - Page 4

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

People, Monstrous

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.

Marisha Pessl

Powerful, Sunshine, People

…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

Order, Diving, Dies

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

Talking, Enough, Length

Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.200, Penguin

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

Marisha Pessl

Stars, Matter, Persons

Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

Marisha Pessl

Crazy, Blue, Sky