It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.

Marisha Pessl

Stichwörter: night-film



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...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Marisha Pessl

Stichwörter: humane-love



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For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Marisha Pessl

Stichwörter: de-baiting



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There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head.

Marisha Pessl

Stichwörter: imagination reality freedom darkness make-believe



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God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.

Marisha Pessl


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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


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... 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


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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


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To be next to her was to have everything.

Marisha Pessl


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Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.

Marisha Pessl

Stichwörter: humor witchcraft night-film



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