The Sleep Tight Motel Quotes

“I feel that familiar niggle of not wanting to disappoint anyone, ever, for any reason. Another female quirk, isn’t it? Always be polite, meet expectations, smile when you don’t want to, cry instead of getting angry. Be pleasing.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“We cling to our ideas of people, don’t we? We hold on tight even when all evidence points to something else.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

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― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“Why celebrate death?” “We’re dead far longer than we’re alive. Why not celebrate? Why not tell ourselves a story about what comes next?”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“When I looked into Erik’s eyes, really saw him for the first time, there was nothing there. I was gazing into space, a vast, cold emptiness. There were no layers to him, no light and shadow.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“feel that familiar niggle of not wanting to disappoint anyone, ever, for any reason. Another female quirk, isn’t it? Always be polite, meet expectations, smile when you don’t want to, cry instead of getting angry.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“I’m not old, but I’ve misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows. I know I feel it, all the scars and broken places, visible and otherwise.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“The first law states that energy can change form but cannot be created or destroyed.” “Okay.” “So, we—our bodies, our spirits or whatever—it’s pure energy. To me, that means we have always been here, and we always will be, just taking different forms.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“Why do we celebrate the monsters, the destroyers, the killers among us?”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“When my father died, I waited for a haunting. I prayed for one. But he never came; I think he would have if he could.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“We’re dead far longer than we’re alive. Why not celebrate? Why not tell ourselves a story about what comes next?”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“Outside the window, the fog is so thick now that it’s all I can see—the blue of the sky, the black green of the trees, all vanish into the gray. I could walk into that mist and just be gone too, I thought.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“It’s such a female thing, to reflexively apologize for everything, for your very existence it sometimes seems.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“I’m not old, but I’ve misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“How can you desire someone who hurts you? How can you miss him so much your body aches? Maybe not him, the man he actually was, but the man I thought he was. We cling to our ideas of people, don’t we? We hold on tight even when all evidence points to something else.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“Dreams come true, I guess, just not always how you imagine them.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel

“My mother always told me that if you’re embarrassed by a kindness and don’t know what to say, keep it simple. “Thank you.”
― Lisa Unger, The Sleep Tight Motel