Lisa Unger Quotes

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

Lisa Unger
They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

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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.

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

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My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.

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

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A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

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How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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More than anything else, resentment was the death of love. It killed slowly.

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

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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.

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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.

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