Lisa Unger Quotes

• When you’re young it’s easy to confuse passion for love.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Love

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Choice

• Things disappear and are never found simply because there’s too much ground to cover.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things

• You didn’t wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Family

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Present

• Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Love

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Children

• Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil

• Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motherhood

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Universe

• 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

  Topics in Memory

• 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

  Topics in Truth

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

  Lisa Unger

  Topics in Truth

Lisa Unger (16)

Birth:	26th April, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Lisa Unger is an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, have sold more than 1.5 million copies and have been translated into twenty-six different languages. she graduated from the New School for Social Research. She now lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.

Related Authors

• Susan Sontag
• Meg Rosoff
• Phillipa Ashley
• Caroline Norton
• Colin Dexter
• Nora Ephron
• John Metcalf
• Hamlin Garland
• Graham Greene
• John Biggins

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 23rd April

Births

• 1974 - Barry Watson
• 1954 - Michael Moore
• 1936 - Roy Orbison
• 1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas
• 1939 - Lee Majors

Deaths

• 1850 - William Wordsworth
• 1988 - Michael Ramsey
• 1915 - Rupert Brooke
• 1986 - Otto Preminger
• 1992 - Satyajit Ray