Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 Quotes

“There’s a day, she’d told him. There’s a last, best day. The day when everything is as good as it’s ever going to be. And if you’re not paying attention, you might miss it. It’s the day when you’re healthy, and everyone you love is okay, and maybe the sun is shining, and you’re doing something stupid like making a cup of tea or reading a book on the porch. And there’s a whole list of things you want but don’t have, and that might be what you’re thinking about. And not a single one of them matters. Because everything that’s important is right there. And, Mav, it’s so easy to miss it completely.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“Sometimes closure is a thing we find within, he’d said. It’s not necessarily given by another person. It can be something we give ourselves.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“Maybe a lot of us, women especially, go through life pleasing people. First we try to be what our parents want us to be,” said Adele, thinking of the place she was in when she met Miller. Unformed in a lot of ways, ripe for the taking. “Then maybe our boyfriends or husbands. Then everyone—social media, our kids, the neighbors. It’s not even conscious all the time. It often takes a moment of reckoning before we ask ourselves, Who am I? What am I doing here? What do I want?”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“We’re always looking for our heroes, aren’t we?” “I think it helps to believe there are people around without flaws, someone to come in for the rescue when things go FUBAR, as Maverick Dillan likes to say. But I don’t think there’s a person alive without flaws, someone who doesn’t make mistakes.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“We’re worthy of life and love because of who we are, not because of what we do. You’re enough, Malinka. I wish someone had told me that when I was younger.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“In the real world, when you hurt someone, you couldn’t help but hurt yourself, too.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“The other two stand, unmoved. What is the greater evil? To commit a heinous act? Or to do nothing at all?”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“Has anything hurt us more? Has anything unstitched the fabric of our humanity more than the things that we have devised to entertain ourselves?”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“There was no prying him open until he was ready, and that might be never.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“Humankind destroys itself with brilliant creativity, but everything comes from mother earth, even technology. There’s nothing more brutally organic than the human mind and all its diabolical inventions.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“There’s a last, best day. The day when everything is as good as it’s ever going to be. And if you’re not paying attention, you might miss it. It’s the day when you’re healthy, and everyone you love is okay, and maybe the sun is shining, and you’re doing something stupid like making a cup of tea or reading a book on the porch. And there’s a whole list of things you want but don’t have, and that might be what you’re thinking about.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“But for Blake a few years was a lifetime. For Adele it was about five minutes ago that she and her kids used to curl up on the couch and watch documentaries about every place, animal, and planet in the solar system.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

“She and Blake were on some kind of a mom-kid loop—his anxiety could amp up her anxiety and vice versa.”
― Lisa Unger, Close Your Eyes and Count to 10