The Doll's House Quotes

“Besides, the one good thing about having the worst thing you can imagine actually happen is that nothing else is ever quite as scary again.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Turns out even new love, even moving on, doesn’t end the suffering of losing someone. It’s just a distraction.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Embrace the new. Let the old fall away like a shed skin. Be the new.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Life will come for you, my dad had scribbled in one of his notebooks. Even when you don’t want it to. One day, it will knock on your door and come in, ask you to go for a walk. And you’ll go. Because what choice do you have?”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Nothing is as scary in the light as it is in my imagination. The gift and the curse of the creative, my dad scribbled in his notebook.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“everyone goes back to their lives—everyone but you.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Rage. It’s like there’s a pilot light always burning in my center. It takes almost nothing for the flames to shoot up.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“We’ll get through this,” she whispered, and we both knew it wasn’t true.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“How do you feel?” “Beaten. Broken in some places. But alive. Free.” “Good,” he says. “Then you’re doing it right.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“But those were just excuses, weren’t they? We always have a thousand reasons not to do the thing we most want to do.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Grief makes you invisible, or so it had seemed to me. After the flood of love and support that comes when someone dies, after the service and all the calls, letters, flowers, there’s a long empty time when everyone goes back to their lives—everyone but you. I felt like I was fading, becoming less every day.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“I see it in him, what I know from my own heart. That terrible longing for the thing you’ve lost. Not just the person, but for everything you were together.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Something that kids won’t know until they’re parents themselves: a good mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“There’s a moment when you realize your child is her own person, full of power. I’m not sure anyone has ever defended me so fiercely.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“the writer’s brain seizes on any distraction. Any excuse not to write, even though that’s the thing you want to do most.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“We always have a thousand reasons not to do the thing we most want to do.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Kids hate you when you screw up their lives and even when you don’t. It’s not really hate, though.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“The first time, it felt like a fairy tale, and it still does. A little cottage by a creek that runs through Kirin’s property. It has a modern vibe, with distressed wood shingles and big windows. I stand before the gray door. “Welcome, Jules,” says Vivi. “You have all-property access.” When the door unlocks, I step inside the bright, airy space. A high ceiling, large windows with a view of the woods all around. White oak floors, white walls. In the middle a simple white Parsons desk with a gleaming new desktop computer. It’s so quiet I can hear my own breath. When Kirin showed it to me the first time, I cried. I sit on the long gray chaise by the window that looks out on the creek. Your dreaming chair, he said. On the far wall, empty white shelves.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Predators and abusers, my shrink has said, can sense your pain and weakness. It’s their gift.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“I want to run for no reason I can name, but there’s no place else to go. Home is a time and place that no longer exists.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“There was no tomorrow when the person you loved most died. But the next morning, the indifferent sun rose again.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Something that kids won’t know until they’re parents themselves: a good mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child. There is nothing more painful than when your child is hurting.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Home is a time and place that no longer exists.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“Kids hate you when you screw up their lives and even when you don’t. It’s not really hate, though. It’s a childish rage mingled with desperate love and a deep disappointment that you’ve turned out to be a human full of flaws and bad decisions. I get it. I’ve been there. We all have, haven’t we?”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“always said, the writer’s brain seizes on any distraction. Any excuse not to write, even though that’s the thing you want to do most.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“There was no tomorrow when the person you loved most died.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“There is nothing more painful than when your child is hurting.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“empty”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“After the flood of love and support that comes when someone dies, after the service and all the calls, letters, flowers, there’s a long empty time when everyone goes back to their lives—everyone but you.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“one good thing about having the worst thing you can imagine actually happen is that nothing else is ever quite as scary again.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House