Top 120 Lisa Unger Quotes (2024 Update)
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Lisa Unger Quote: “Love, a promise delivered already broken.”

51. “Love, a promise delivered already broken.”

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.”

52. “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: “Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.”

53. “Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.”

54. “It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven’t experimented. I’ve found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.”

55. “Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven’t experimented. I’ve found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “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 seven things – seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence. If you reverse engineer any major disaster – oil spill or train derailment or airplane crash – there are usually seven things that had to go wrong in order for them to occur. Claudia.”

56. “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 seven things – seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence. If you reverse engineer any major disaster – oil spill or train derailment or airplane crash – there are usually seven things that had to go wrong in order for them to occur. Claudia.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “If I weren’t a writer, I’d be a psychiatrist.”

57. “If I weren’t a writer, I’d be a psychiatrist.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.”

58. “Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn’t you agree?”

59. “Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn’t you agree?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can’t make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don’t meet our artificial expectations.”

60. “As parents, we must accept that our children are who they are. We can’t make them into something we want, or be disappointed in them because they don’t meet our artificial expectations.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels – what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.”

61. “The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels – what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “The human mind, with all its mystery, bears endless study. Doesn’t it?”

62. “The human mind, with all its mystery, bears endless study. Doesn’t it?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can’t imagine the places you’ll end up. But most people don’t do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.”

63. “IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can’t imagine the places you’ll end up. But most people don’t do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “There is no external refuge.” Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I.”

64. “There is no external refuge.” Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.”

65. “Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I liked how she never offered any physical comfort. I appreciate people who have a healthy respect for personal boundaries. Our culture is too touchy-feely; everyone wants a hug these days. But Dr. Cooper just sat and was present.”

66. “I liked how she never offered any physical comfort. I appreciate people who have a healthy respect for personal boundaries. Our culture is too touchy-feely; everyone wants a hug these days. But Dr. Cooper just sat and was present.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

67. “Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Nobody told you that wen you became a parent, you became a child again; it was early bedtimes and grilled cheese sandwiches for all. Every date night was a negotiation, every invitation that you actually had the desire or energy to accept became a strategic maneuver that may or may not work out after all.”

68. “Nobody told you that wen you became a parent, you became a child again; it was early bedtimes and grilled cheese sandwiches for all. Every date night was a negotiation, every invitation that you actually had the desire or energy to accept became a strategic maneuver that may or may not work out after all.”

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

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

Lisa Unger Quote: “I don’t think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I’m exploring on the page. I don’t actually think of myself as having ‘created’ any of these people.”

70. “I don’t think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I’m exploring on the page. I don’t actually think of myself as having ‘created’ any of these people.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.”

71. “In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.”

72. “I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Didn’t it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn’t it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that?”

73. “Didn’t it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn’t it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.”

74. “I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “If she was honest with herself, the challenge of Graham excited her at first. She amped up her fitness routine, wore the sexiest underwear she could find. She made him chase. Blocked his calls sometimes, even stood him up once. Once upon a time, she’d been the woman sending dirty texts. His excitement excited her. That’s why she thought she’d left Will for Graham. Because Graham excited her. Because life with him, what it would be, could be, seemed like a mystery, an adventure.”

75. “If she was honest with herself, the challenge of Graham excited her at first. She amped up her fitness routine, wore the sexiest underwear she could find. She made him chase. Blocked his calls sometimes, even stood him up once. Once upon a time, she’d been the woman sending dirty texts. His excitement excited her. That’s why she thought she’d left Will for Graham. Because Graham excited her. Because life with him, what it would be, could be, seemed like a mystery, an adventure.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They’re charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away.”

76. “For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They’re charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “When they’re small, they’re part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.”

77. “When they’re small, they’re part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.”

78. “I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It’s so hard for the strongest among us to stay sane, isn’t it, under the conditions we have come to think of as normal?”

79. “It’s so hard for the strongest among us to stay sane, isn’t it, under the conditions we have come to think of as normal?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I started thinking about how to draw her, how I’d capture all the things I saw in just those few moments that our lives intersected. Faces are so hard because they are more than lines and shadows. They are about light, but a light that comes from inside and shines out.”

80. “I started thinking about how to draw her, how I’d capture all the things I saw in just those few moments that our lives intersected. Faces are so hard because they are more than lines and shadows. They are about light, but a light that comes from inside and shines out.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Fear holds on. Love lets go.”

81. “Fear holds on. Love lets go.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “But that’s the thing about mental illness; there’s no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We’re all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.”

82. “But that’s the thing about mental illness; there’s no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We’re all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Dysfunction isn’t a choice, it’s a disease.”

83. “Dysfunction isn’t a choice, it’s a disease.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I think we draw people into our lives... It’s as though we broadcast our deepest needs... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.”

84. “I think we draw people into our lives... It’s as though we broadcast our deepest needs... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up.”

85. “Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The.”

86. “You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.”

87. “Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can’t hide from the people who changed your diapers.”

88. “You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can’t hide from the people who changed your diapers.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I think we draw people into our lives. It’s as though we broadcast our deepest needs, and certain people hear the signal somewhere in their own subconscious and heed the call. For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our nightmares. Some of us have louder signals.”

89. “I think we draw people into our lives. It’s as though we broadcast our deepest needs, and certain people hear the signal somewhere in their own subconscious and heed the call. For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our nightmares. Some of us have louder signals.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants “whose virtues had not yet been discovered.”

90. “Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants “whose virtues had not yet been discovered.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.”

91. “Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.”

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. If the last few months have taught me anything, it’s this: We don’t have control, we have choices. The little ones, the big ones, these are the points on which our lives pitch and pivot. All we can do is make the best choices we can with what we know, and hope that things turn out the way we want.”

92. “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. If the last few months have taught me anything, it’s this: We don’t have control, we have choices. The little ones, the big ones, these are the points on which our lives pitch and pivot. All we can do is make the best choices we can with what we know, and hope that things turn out the way we want.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “I mean – are some men just flawed by nature? Or do we enable their bad behavior, make it worse in a way because we hide it, and don’t demand better from them?”

93. “I mean – are some men just flawed by nature? Or do we enable their bad behavior, make it worse in a way because we hide it, and don’t demand better from them?”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Every couple starts off loving each other, don’t they? It’s how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.”

94. “Every couple starts off loving each other, don’t they? It’s how a relationship ends that really defines its nature.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “People didn’t fall in love with other people. They fell in love with how other people made them feel about themselves. And so, it was easy to get someone to love you – if you knew how they wanted to feel.”

95. “People didn’t fall in love with other people. They fell in love with how other people made them feel about themselves. And so, it was easy to get someone to love you – if you knew how they wanted to feel.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “It was so much simpler to see other people’s wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.”

96. “It was so much simpler to see other people’s wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.”

97. “Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “He didn’t respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.”

98. “He didn’t respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “There was stardust in her bones.”

99. “There was stardust in her bones.”

Lisa Unger Quote: “All women are mysteries.” “Only men think that,” said Pearl. “Largely because they’re not paying attention.”

100. “All women are mysteries.” “Only men think that,” said Pearl. “Largely because they’re not paying attention.”

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