“She did love him, in that way that teenage girls love, like a lemming. Which is not love, of course.” — Lisa Unger Love Copy Share Image
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger Absence Copy Share Image
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?” — Lisa Unger Children Copy Share Image
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home. — Lisa Unger Body Copy Share Image
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there… — Lisa Unger Hope Copy Share Image
I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. — Lisa Unger Dark Copy Share Image
“Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case—once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what… — Lisa Unger Birdie Copy Share Image
“There is no external refuge.” Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot… — Lisa Unger Learning Copy Share Image
“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own… — Lisa Unger Child Copy Share Image
“When they’re small, they’re part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can’t imagine the places you’ll… — Lisa Unger Life Copy Share Image
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his… — Lisa Unger Age Copy Share Image
There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Honestly, it’s the most you can ask of men sometimes. They’re so wound up, so buried beneath layers of “boys don’t cry,”… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Didn’t it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn’t… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes… — Lisa Unger Bullshit Copy Share Image
“But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its… — Lisa Unger Memory Copy Share Image
And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues,… — Lisa Unger Acquaintance Copy Share Image
It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten… — Lisa Unger Adults Copy Share Image
“When you hate women, you hate all the female elements of your own psychology. Jung believed that there were two primary anthropomorphic… — Lisa Unger Conscious mind Copy Share Image
“I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with… — Lisa Unger Abusers Copy Share Image
“It was fear. Fear that, after all the years of protecting his health, his heart, his mind, setting bedtimes and boundaries, giving… — Lisa Unger Crossing the street Copy Share Image
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar,… — Lisa Unger Appetite Copy Share Image
“How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun… — Lisa Unger Hard time Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on? — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.” — Lisa Unger Parenthood Copy Share Image
“But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.” — Lisa Unger Change Copy Share Image
“You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. — Lisa Unger Crime Copy Share Image
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. — Lisa Unger Future Copy Share Image
“Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don’t have your own?” — Lisa Unger Child Copy Share Image
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