Lisa Unger Quotes

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

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

It’s all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn’t ha...

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

Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you t...

Sometimes it seemed like that was all it was, motherhood—grief and guilt and fear. You said good-bye a little every day—from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't...

When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it’s like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the hor...

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 t...

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

You know, he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. It’s okay to disappoint people sometimes. It’s okay for us to say no simply because we don’t want to do something. Intelle...

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

There were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

Dreams come true, I guess, just not always how you imagine them.

Emily thought maybe it was simpler than that: Some people gave money instead of love because it was all they had to give. A full bank account and a life of good deeds achieved with money didn’t mean a...

Fear holds on. Love lets go.

Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn’t. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt l...

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindnes...