“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”Marisha Pessl Source: Night Film
“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity PhysicsSource: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“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, for, everything around you.”Marisha Pessl Source: Night Film
“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity PhysicsSource: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.- Hannah Schneider”Marisha Pessl
“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity PhysicsSource: Special Topics in Calamity Physics