“You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.” — Lisa Unger Bleeding Copy Share Image
“But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.” — Lisa Unger Change Copy Share Image
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window… — Lisa Unger Always Copy Share Image
“Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.” — Lisa Unger Love Copy Share Image
“Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn’t a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us. — Lisa Unger Carry Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another. — Lisa Unger Another 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
“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
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 Actually 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 Answers 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
“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
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its… — Lisa Unger Big Copy Share Image
“It’s never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she’d read once—though she couldn’t say where. It’s usually… — Lisa Unger Accident Copy Share Image
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place… — Lisa Unger Chevy Copy Share Image
“Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures… — Lisa Unger Knuckles Copy Share Image
A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some… — Lisa Unger Acknowledge 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
“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
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
“We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz… — Lisa Unger Friendship Copy Share Image
We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we… — Lisa Unger Chasing Copy Share Image
People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out… — Lisa Unger Chance Copy Share Image
It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions… — Lisa Unger Action Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. — Lisa Unger Believe Copy Share Image
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… — Lisa Unger Discovery Copy Share Image
“...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it… — Lisa Unger Control Copy Share Image
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe… — Lisa Unger Always Copy Share Image
Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers. — Lisa Unger Children Copy Share Image
When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone… — Lisa Unger Circumstances Copy Share Image
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his… — Lisa Unger Body Copy Share Image
“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and… — Lisa Unger Fairy Copy Share Image
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with… — Lisa Unger Always Copy Share Image
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant… — Lisa Unger Book Copy Share Image
“Admittedly, the modern teenager was a bit of a mystery to Jones. But he did know one thing: they were wired together… — Lisa Unger Growing pains Copy Share Image
“Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.” — Lisa Unger Denial Copy Share Image
I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the… — Lisa Unger Away Copy Share Image
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to… — Lisa Unger Different Copy Share Image
In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I… — Lisa Unger Cared Copy Share Image
