What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere? Marisha Pessl More Quotes by Marisha Pessl More Quotes From Marisha Pessl ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles. Marisha Pessl lonelyletting-goamerica …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 divingdiesorder She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now. Marisha Pessl painhurtmorning To be next to her was to have everything. Marisha Pessl next It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would. Marisha Pessl simplewarpeople ... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said. Marisha Pessl realmathkids It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning. Marisha Pessl gameswantgiving ...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love. Marisha Pessl spareshumanitysecret For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. Marisha Pessl baitmotivationalmen But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars. Marisha Pessl starspersonsmatter God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. Marisha Pessl favorswritingneeds If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible. Marisha Pessl napkinscocktailsfew-words Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. Marisha Pessl realizingbandkind It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. Marisha Pessl changing-your-lifeforevernight When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words. Marisha Pessl writingsongcharacter Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of. Marisha Pessl bandforeverwriting You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. Marisha Pessl journalistignorantmystery In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye? Marisha Pessl houseamericapeople I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily. Marisha Pessl hatereadingbook I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on. Marisha Pessl writingcharacterbelieve
