“an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.” — Lisa Unger Attractive Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger Books Copy Share Image
“things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover.” — Lisa Unger Disappear Copy Share Image
you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work. — Lisa Unger Change Copy Share Image
“You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.” — Lisa Unger Family Copy Share Image
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. — Lisa Unger Asks Copy Share Image
“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.” — Lisa Unger Spoke 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
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
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime… — Lisa Unger Blood Copy Share Image
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've… — Lisa Unger Any 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
You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from… — Lisa Unger Calling Copy Share Image
“When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.” — Lisa Unger Denial Copy Share Image
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to… — Lisa Unger Begin again Copy Share Image
“With his total cholesterol over250 and his weight not far behind, there were no more Philly cheesesteaks, fries, and a large soda… — Lisa Unger Adulthood Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you’re… — Lisa Unger Forgive Copy Share Image
“We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us… — Lisa Unger Live and love 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 Care 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 Small 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
“Just because people treat you like shit, just because you may feel like shit sometimes, doesn't mean you are shit. You can… — Lisa Unger Better place Copy Share Image
“He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a… — Lisa Unger Long haul Copy Share Image
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart… — Lisa Unger Admiration Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Absolutes Copy Share Image
“All she could think of was how pure and unblemished, how soft and pink his baby skin had been. How his wonderful… — Lisa Unger Big deal 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
I don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a… — Lisa Unger Attention Copy Share Image
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,… — Lisa Unger Ache Copy Share Image
“I thought about my brother. I hated him. Hated him like a child hates a fallen hero. I hated him for his… — Lisa Unger Children Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger Billions Copy Share Image