“an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. — Lisa Unger Crime 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
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. — Lisa Unger Future Copy Share Image
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. — Lisa Unger Anger 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
“But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.” — Lisa Unger Change 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
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
“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
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another. — Lisa Unger 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
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
“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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“Emily looked into his eyes. They were blank, unreadable. That was the worst kind of person, the scariest—the one who’d learned to… — Lisa Unger Destroyers 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 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.” — Lisa Unger 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
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.” — Lisa Unger Parenthood Copy Share Image