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Top 120 Lisa Unger Quotes (2025 Update)

Lisa Unger Quote: “The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.”

1. “The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

2. “The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.”

3. “You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.”

4. “The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I think that’s the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we’ve made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

5. “I think that’s the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we’ve made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.”

6. “Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It must be the ultimate punishment, don’t you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?”

7. “It must be the ultimate punishment, don’t you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Sometimes silence is the only answer we get, and we have to accept that.”

8. “Sometimes silence is the only answer we get, and we have to accept that.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.”

9. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “When you love someone, it doesn’t really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

10. “When you love someone, it doesn’t really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty.”

11. “When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you’ll always hear them calling your name.”

12. “You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you’ll always hear them calling your name.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “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 doesn’t allow it.”

13. “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 doesn’t allow it.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”

14. “People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.”

15. “Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Isn’t it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?”

16. “Isn’t it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I loved him so much. It didn’t change all the reasons we couldn’t be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

17. “I loved him so much. It didn’t change all the reasons we couldn’t be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.”

18. “Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Is the prey complicit in its own demise? Are we not seduced in some small way by the beauty, the grace, even the dangerous soul of the predator?”

19. “Is the prey complicit in its own demise? Are we not seduced in some small way by the beauty, the grace, even the dangerous soul of the predator?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Denial: my family heritage. If you don’t ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.”

20. “Denial: my family heritage. If you don’t ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “We can’t hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.”

21. “We can’t hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart.”

22. “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”

23. “The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that’s where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.”

24. “Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that’s where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.”

25. “But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.”

26. “Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.”

27. “It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it’s like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.”

28. “When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it’s like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.”

29. “Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.”

30. “I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “There was something eternal about loss, something endless. You could always lose the things you had, but you couldn’t always get back the things you lost.”

31. “There was something eternal about loss, something endless. You could always lose the things you had, but you couldn’t always get back the things you lost.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.”

32. “The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Judgment is such a useful shield, isn’t it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.”

33. “Judgment is such a useful shield, isn’t it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “When you’re young it’s easy to confuse passion for love.”

34. “When you’re young it’s easy to confuse passion for love.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account. They’re not people, not really. They’re parents; how dare they live and love and die without us?”

35. “We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account. They’re not people, not really. They’re parents; how dare they live and love and die without us?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It’s strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”

36. “It’s strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn’t taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It’s hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.”

37. “There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn’t taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It’s hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She.”

38. “Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I don’t believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, then I’ll bet that you’re not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street... or didn’t. But you don’t know; you can’t possibly know.”

39. “I don’t believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, then I’ll bet that you’re not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street... or didn’t. But you don’t know; you can’t possibly know.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.”

40. “Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Totally different outcomes; we’ve made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It’s one important factor in a million. But in the end, it’s not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it’s how you choose to react to them.”

41. “Totally different outcomes; we’ve made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It’s one important factor in a million. But in the end, it’s not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it’s how you choose to react to them.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It’s all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn’t have this story to tell you. I wouldn’t be the same person telling it.”

42. “It’s all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn’t have this story to tell you. I wouldn’t be the same person telling it.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society’s misfits.”

43. “Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society’s misfits.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it’s the absence of something.”

44. “Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it’s the absence of something.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions.”

45. “We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things have their impact and can’t be undone. To judge those experiences, to hate the things that have happened to us is to hate who we’ve become because of them.”

46. “We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things have their impact and can’t be undone. To judge those experiences, to hate the things that have happened to us is to hate who we’ve become because of them.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.”

47. “Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.”

48. “Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I feel that familiar niggle of not wanting to disappoint anyone, ever, for any reason. Another female quirk, isn’t it? Always be polite, meet expectations, smile when you don’t want to, cry instead of getting angry. Be pleasing.”

49. “I feel that familiar niggle of not wanting to disappoint anyone, ever, for any reason. Another female quirk, isn’t it? Always be polite, meet expectations, smile when you don’t want to, cry instead of getting angry. Be pleasing.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “We may say we’re looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren’t we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? – Ridley Jones.”

50. “We may say we’re looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren’t we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? – Ridley Jones.”

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