The New Couple in 5B Quotes

“People love their devices—they telegraph wealth, fitness, virtue, the idea that they are so important and must be connected every moment. But I see them for what they are—the tools of corporations to keep you wanting, buying, unable to be present, shackled to their plans for you and your money. It’s a con, a scam, and the whole world has bought right into it.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Because in the end, that’s what our lives are—stories that we tell ourselves and each other. And those stories are all that remain after we’re gone.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“There’s a light that comes from within you, Rosie. Something bright and right and true. Pure goodness. And I thought if someone like you could love me, then I must—on some level—be okay.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“My mother said most everyone is looking for the same things. They want to be loved. They want to be safe. Some people think they want to be rich, or famous or powerful. But it’s really the feeling they think those things will give them that they truly crave. And”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“New York City, as much as I love it, is an assault, a daily punch in the face.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“by man. Call yourself what you want. Pray to Jesus or Buddha or Allah or whoever. But God’s only name is Love, he used to say. The sky is our fresco. The stars, our angels, looking down.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Think about all the things that had to go wrong for just one thing to go right.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“The idea of the happy family is so ingrained in our culture, that we cling desperately to even the worst origins. It takes a deep, abiding courage to let go.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“It’s not psychic to be observant, to have a deep knowledge of the human condition. It’s just that so few people are paying attention, it seems like something otherworldly.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“I remember wondering if anything was real, anything was true or if every place, every reality, was just another story you choose to believe.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“I think I need to go home,” she says. “I don’t like it here.” I laugh a little. “I can understand why.” “This city, that building. It’s not safe.” She’s right, of course. But then again, the world isn’t safe.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“I swing my arms at him, but slowly all the strength drains from me. And it’s like those dreams where you can’t fight back, no strength, no air.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“My family is quicksand; get too close and they pull you under.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“I think that’s all hauntings really are. Just memories lingering.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“there’s no way to know the road not taken or where it would have led us.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“wobbly in every way”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“I don’t believe in bad luck, do you? Those were Chad’s first words to Rosie. I don’t. I don’t believe in good luck, either. But I do believe that certain circumstances might look like bad luck, but then lead to something wonderful.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“My mother was right about me. Never satisfied. Always looking for the new shiny thing like a crow.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“The only truth is the moment. The activities of my mind are a fantasy. I only need to respond to what is directly in front of me. The past is gone. No one can see into the next moment.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“That buzz, that curiosity that has me digging through the past, is a white noise in my head.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“As the sun comes up, debuting white golden through the east windows, I am way down the rabbit hole, with the contents of the box spread around me in a great arc—one pile for photos, one for notebooks, one for schematics and drawings.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Today is the first day of the rest of our lives,” he says with a dramatic sweep of his arm. He’s the king of the well-placed cliché. But he’s right. It feels momentous.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“what I believe is that you are the author of your life. That you write your own story. That you are the hero and the villain and everyone else.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Sometimes when your world falls apart, you just have to take action. Sitting helpless is not a good option.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“They want to be loved. They want to be safe. Some people think they want to be rich, or famous or powerful. But it’s really the feeling they think those things will give them that they truly crave.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“Daddy always said that you couldn’t see the stars in the city. But he’s wrong. They’re up there, twinkling dimly against all the light we create down here.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

“A predator might initially be very attractive to his victim. She might be drawn to his darkness, his violence, without even realizing it because of some trauma in her past, some subconscious craving for pain.”
― Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B