Pessl Night Quotes

#1. She's smiling that smile they smile before they grow bosoms.

Rebecca Wells

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

Marisha Pessl

#3. We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.

Marisha Pessl

#4. WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARDS
This is the Cordovites' premier wormhole, where time ticks backward, trees grow down, light eats itself, fear is an opening, and life is Sovereign, Deadly, Perfect.

Marisha Pessl

#5. Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Marisha Pessl

#6. Dharma is the study of what is, and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself.

Pema Chodron

#7. It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

Marisha Pessl

#8. Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren't immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what crack they fell into by Saturday.

Marisha Pessl

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

Marisha Pessl

#10. I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: "What good did it do the occupant to be born?", I now put the same question about anyone alive.

Emil Cioran

#12. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

Pope Pius IX

#13. My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

Matt Smith

#14. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.

R. Lee Smith