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I live for the blank page. — Lisa Unger

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost — Lisa Unger

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on? — Lisa Unger

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma. — Lisa Unger

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

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. — Lisa Unger

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

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever. — Lisa Unger

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me. — Lisa Unger

It was the dawn of a new day that Birdie prized. It was God's little reminder that no matter how dark the night, the sun always rises. — Lisa Unger

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day
from the minute they left your body until they left your home. — Lisa Unger

But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it. — Lisa Unger

I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles. — Lisa Unger

You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family. — Lisa Unger

things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover. — Lisa Unger

The human mind, with all its mystery, bears endless study. Doesn't it? — Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger

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

In their predictable lives, where everything — Lisa Unger

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. — Lisa Unger

Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants whose virtues had not yet been discovered. — Lisa Unger

Some bolts and then a door opened onto Eleventh — Lisa Unger

In my research about the patient-therapist relationship, as well as the particular — Lisa Unger

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another. — Lisa Unger

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles. — Lisa Unger

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us. — Lisa Unger

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. — Lisa Unger

What we think of as our "gut instincts" are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires. — Lisa Unger

He didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. — Lisa Unger

Back. But no, she couldn't have allowed it. She couldn't allow the shame, the disgrace. The very idea that he'd leave her for — Lisa Unger

Eloise thought that justice was a funny thing. It was a big idea, a romantic one. It was imagined like a satisfying end to a story. — Lisa Unger

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

Dysfunction isn't a choice, it's a disease. — Lisa Unger

Who you marry, what you choose as your profession, how you were raised - yes, that is the big picture. But, as they say, the devil's in the details. — Lisa Unger

I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life. — Lisa Unger

Said. I've heard enough. From — Lisa Unger

Anger is not the absence of love. Anger broke you apart. Love and anger wrap around each other and becomes one living thing inside your heart. — Lisa Unger

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. — Lisa Unger

Adopt the pace of nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her secret is patience. Ray — Lisa Unger

When we put on clothes, we're telling ourselves something, and we're communicating that something to every person we meet. — Lisa Unger

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change. — Lisa Unger

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love. — Lisa Unger

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

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer. — Lisa Unger

It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think. — Lisa Unger

Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case - once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you'd dreamed it to be. — Lisa Unger

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers. — Lisa Unger

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. — Lisa Unger

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel — Lisa Unger

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

Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it. — Lisa Unger

Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't. — Lisa Unger

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

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. — Lisa Unger

You cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work. — Lisa Unger

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

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form. — Lisa Unger

The girl with the pictures on her skin — Lisa Unger

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

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood. — Lisa Unger

The years grew over that embrace like a vine. — Lisa Unger

She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both. — Lisa Unger

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits. — Lisa Unger

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

Fear holds on. Love lets go. — Lisa Unger

Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes, — Lisa Unger

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time. — Lisa Unger

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

Love, a promise delivered already broken. — Lisa Unger

Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen. — Lisa Unger

Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other. — Lisa Unger

Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble. — Lisa Unger

Every couple starts off loving each other, don't they? It's how a relationship ends that really defines its nature. — Lisa Unger

She did love him, in that way that teenage girls love, like a lemming. Which is not love, of course. — Lisa Unger

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today. — Lisa Unger

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

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. — Lisa Unger

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place. — Lisa Unger

I love the way Beck loves. If everyone loved like she did, the world would be a better place. — Lisa Unger

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist. — Lisa Unger

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction. — Lisa Unger

An awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world. — Lisa Unger

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes. — Lisa Unger

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her. — Lisa Unger

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