Darkly Quotes

“These old things, they don’t look like much, but they bookmark our lives. They have a silent permanence that people and places do not. Something to carry with us. Always. They were there when no one else was, looking on without judgment when all of these wonderful and terrible things happened to us. And still, they are there. They survive. And somehow, they remember. The worry is, if they’re gone, we are gone, too.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“Put art and commerce first—if you’re a man, you’re a pillar of society. If you’re a woman, you’re monstrous. This is it. This is what is real in our world. Keep your eyes open, Dia, or closed, it’s your choice.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“Stay here, Paradise - do not move. I'm coming back.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“This is the hidden headquarters, the workshop of one of the most provocative inventors who ever lived - a woman worshipped, then ridiculed, then discounted, long dead.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“There is only what we make today, what we leave behind, the people we cherish—sand castles all of it, but so beautiful.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“It is our plight, as humans, all of us tossed along in the current, the same direction—we can’t stop it.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly

“You see someone beautiful and smiling in a photo against a backdrop of a beach—and oh, you envy that happy life there in the little square. You have no clue it’s all an illusion.”
― Marisha Pessl, Darkly