Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger
Lisa Ungeris an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1970
CountryUnited States of America
world firsts fringe
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.
loss loses knows
We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.
growing-up responsibility thinking
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.
self discovery matter
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.
zero children fall
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.
path easy ifs
The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.
arrogance overcoming rage
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.
denial heritage my-family
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.
psychiatrist ifs
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
damage-is-done often-is violence
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
today finest crime
Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
accepting
Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.
philosophy giving forever
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
single-mom judging analyzing
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.