170 Quotes by Lisa Unger

Emily looked into his eyes. They were blank, unreadable. That was the worst kind of person, the scariest—the one who’d learned to keep his feelings out of his eyes. Or who didn’t feel anything at all. Emily had known people like that; they were the destroyers. They took things—everything you worked for, all your silly dreams—and smashed them beneath their boots for no reason at all.

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

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

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

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? - Ridley Jones

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

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