Marisha Pessl Quotes

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.

I don't want to have to hide from the world anymore.

I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

I really live my life openly.

Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

It's always important to be yourself.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.