Die for You Quotes

“Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“I’ll keep it to remember that love is what we do, not what we say. That not everyone has the strength or the ability to love another, or even himself. And that some of us have a secret heart that cannot be shared.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“But the foliage of mundane life just grew over the past a bit every day if you let it. And maybe that was the most extraordinary event of all.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“What did it really mean to love someone? Did it have to last forever to have existed at all?”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“She heeded Bluebeard’s warning, thought Pandora was a fool. There are some memories better abandoned. Common wisdom demanded examination of the past, probing of childhood pain and trauma. Then—acceptance, release, and ultimately forgiveness.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“Life’s not so simple. People are many things, each of them true.”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions—what we do—that we are happy or the reverse…. All human happiness and misery take the form of action. —ARISTOTLE Writing”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You

“But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel”
― Lisa Unger, Die for You