Lisa Unger Quotes

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.