The Safe Room Quotes

“No shit, Sherlock.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Go,” I tell her. “I love you. Be smart. Be safe.” “Love you, Mom.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Amelia is a true New York City kid. Central Park is about all the nature she can stand. Houses in the woods are for horror movies where people get killed with a chainsaw.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“This place—it’s familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. A place where a different version of me lived her early life.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“In the moonlight, I talked to him, even though he seemed somewhere far away, offline. Not dead yet, but gone to some in-between place.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Cops are like vampires. If you let them in”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Watch out on those roads,” he said one night. “Deer. Cops. Don’t fuck up your life”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation is the most likely. Jung’s razor: If you cannot understand why someone did something”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“There are very few criminal masterminds. Meaning that most people who do bad things are broken”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Who is the redhead? Where is my father’s phone? What is actually happening here?”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“My mother was happy in California. And even though she never said I couldn’t live with her, it was pretty clear to me that she’d moved on from motherhood. She’d done a decent enough job, and now she just wanted to have fun in her child-free life with her”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“It’s one advantage to being poorly parented: you learn to rely on yourself only.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Calm down, Eve, my father might put in. Words that have calmed no woman ever.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room

“Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation is the most likely. Jung’s razor: If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences, and then infer the motivation. Hanlon’s razor is a special favorite: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Lisa Unger, The Safe Room