Top 30 Lisa Lutz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.”

— Lisa Lutz

2. “Somebody is always hiding something.”

— Lisa Lutz

3. “I’m sorry you’re angry is not an apology.”

— Lisa Lutz

4. “His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.”

— Lisa Lutz

5. “There was a time I used to cry, but that was another lifetime ago. My heart was broken just once. But completely. As.”

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6. “I trust no one, not even myself.”

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7. “But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there’s no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”

— Lisa Lutz

8. “Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good.”

— Lisa Lutz

9. “I tried not to think of Uncle Ray as being gone forever. I just liked to imagine him on one really long Lost Weekend.”

— Lisa Lutz

10. “While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother’s and father’s best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck’s thrown in.”

— Lisa Lutz

11. “It’s always good to go home.”

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12. “I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.”

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13. “I don’t mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.”

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14. “I want you to write one page on what you want to be when you grow up, and then one page on what you want to be if that first thing doesn’t work out, because sometimes things don’t work out the way we’d like them to. Then another page on what you’d do if the first two things you’d like to be don’t work out. Then two pages on the one thing you definitely don’t want to be no matter what. It’s really important not to let the bottom drop out of your life.”

— Lisa Lutz

15. “I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you’re not a vampire.”

— Lisa Lutz

16. “I wished I were a snake, so I could crawl out of my skin.”

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17. “You can never see anything clearly when you’re running.”

— Lisa Lutz

18. “Men are so easily drawn to fake things.”

— Lisa Lutz

19. “I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.”

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20. “Mitch had a particular way with women – a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.”

— Lisa Lutz

21. “My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.”

— Lisa Lutz

22. “David, I just broke into your home. Clearly I don’t respect boundaries. Do you really think a verbal request is going to put a dent in any of my plans?”

— Lisa Lutz

23. “I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can’t even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.”

— Lisa Lutz

24. “You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it’ll all work out in the end. But don’t be surprised when they figure out that you’ve been feeding them lies.”

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25. “Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.”

— Lisa Lutz

26. “We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known.”

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27. “We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.”

— Lisa Lutz

28. “If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist.”

— Lisa Lutz

29. “The problem isn’t reading Ayn Rand, it’s liking her.”

— Lisa Lutz

30. “Everyone should know what it’s like to get a C.”

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31. “Sometimes it’s not the truth itself but the surprise that feels like a blow.”

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32. “Look around,” said Sean. “Everyone in this bar was born here. Most had plans to leave at one time or another, but then at some point they got caught in a snare, and like an animal, lacked the cunning to undo the clamp.”

— Lisa Lutz

33. “Although cocaine wasn’t my thing, the guy was sporting a leather jacket and a Kereouac novel and I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”

— Lisa Lutz

34. “Shame is cunning,” Ms. Witt said. “Even if the feeling doesn’t come from a rational place, it sticks. But that doesn’t mean it’s real.”

— Lisa Lutz