“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
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Autobiographical Copy Share Image
“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.” — Lisa Unger Parenthood Copy Share Image
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life. — Lisa Unger Analyzing Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on? — Lisa Unger Eager 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 don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer. — Lisa Unger Define Copy Share Image
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out… — Lisa Unger Action Copy Share Image
“What we think of as our “gut instincts” are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.” — Lisa Unger Desire Copy Share Image
“She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.” — Lisa Unger Shattering Copy Share Image
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a… — Lisa Unger Aches Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Alone Copy Share Image
“… there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule… — Lisa Unger Be nice Copy Share Image
“Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs. — Lisa Unger Courage Copy Share Image
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other.… — Lisa Unger Both Copy Share Image
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger.… — Lisa Unger Backdrop Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the… — Lisa Unger Life Copy Share Image
“I couldn't leave there without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that… — Lisa Unger Life Copy Share Image
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often… — Lisa Unger Feels 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
“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 Looks 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 Man U Copy Share Image
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize… — Lisa Unger Body 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
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
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize… — Lisa Unger Fall in love Copy Share Image
“We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One… — Lisa Unger Patience 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
“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
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. — Lisa Unger Inspirational Copy Share Image
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. — Lisa Unger Anger 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
Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. — Lisa Unger Crime Copy Share Image
