Crazy Love You Quotes

“Never forget those first five minutes, when you thought how much you loved each other was the only thing that mattered. Because in truth it is the only thing that matters. That love is what gets you through all the other stuff.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Sometimes the choices we make are not choices at all, but concessions to forces beyond our control.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven't experimented. I've found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society’s misfits.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Isn’t it easier to wallow in anger and misery over the wrongs that have been done to you than to let go, to forgive, and move forward? What is it about unhappiness that is so comfortable, so familiar?”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned from The Mourning Bride by William Congreve. Most people think it’s Shakespeare, but it’s not.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“But depression or postpartum psychosis or any kind of mental illness is a rabbit hole. It’s a whole other world down there. The decisions you make in that place don’t hold up in the real world. No one understands that.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“God help you in America if you are not thin and fit, attractive, athletic, and coordinated, driven to win at any cost. God help you if you are broken or sad, or even just cerebral, or artistic, or just want to be left alone. You will be told in a million different ways—directly, subliminally—just how deficient you are. But nowhere will the message be”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You

“People act out of love or they act out of fear,” she said. “Those are the only two primary motivators.”
― Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You