Heartbroken Quotes

“Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else’s. When you loved your kids, you’d give up everything to keep them safe and make them happy, and you didn’t care about the other things, the ones that went away.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“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.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“When you’re young it's easy to confuse passion for love.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“There was something eternal about loss, something endless. You could always lose the things you had, but you couldn't always get back the things you lost.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Didn’t it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn’t it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that?”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“… there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn’t how things went.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case—once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you’d dreamed it to be.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“No, life wasn’t precious. But sometimes it was the punishment you deserved.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“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.” Intellectually,”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“He didn’t seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“It was so much simpler to see other people’s wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“First you were the kid, no one taking you seriously. And then, all of a sudden, people much younger were in positions of authority, and you were supposed to listen to them. It was truly weird.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“What is the difference between fiction and memoir, really? I mean, isn’t there a bit of autobiography in every novel? And isn’t there a bit of fiction in every memoir? Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn’t you agree?”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“While Birdie was a guest in their home, the Crosses would find her irresistibly charming, impeccably well mannered, and delightfully funny. But when they were out of earshot once again, Birdie would tell Kate in unsparing detail what she really thought. Birdie Burke took merciless measure.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Anger, disappointment, sadness were the all-too-familiar horsemen preceding any encounter with her family.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“Anger is not the absence of love. Anger broke you apart. Love and anger wrap around each other and becomes one living thing inside your heart.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“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 full heart or a giving soul—often just the opposite.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken

“...it was the dawn of a new day that Birdie prized. It was God's little reminder that no matter how dark the night, the sun always rises.”
― Lisa Unger, Heartbroken