Lisa Unger Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

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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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• Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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