“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.” — Lisa Unger Parenthood 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
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. — Lisa Unger 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
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
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe… — Lisa Unger 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
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 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
“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 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
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 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
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger 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
“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
“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.” — Lisa Unger 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 Copy Share Image
