170 Quotes by Lisa Unger

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that’s where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

It’s never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she’d read once – though she couldn’t say where. It’s usually seven things – seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence. If you reverse engineer any major disaster – oil spill or train derailment or airplane crash – there are usually seven things that had to go wrong in order for them to occur. Claudia.

I think we draw people into our lives... It’s as though we broadcast our deepest needs... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.

If I weren’t a writer, I’d be a psychiatrist.

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. If the last few months have taught me anything, it’s this: We don’t have control, we have choices. The little ones, the big ones, these are the points on which our lives pitch and pivot. All we can do is make the best choices we can with what we know, and hope that things turn out the way we want.

I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.

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.

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

Fear holds on. Love lets go.