Last Girl Ghosted Quotes

“Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Even though we can’t always have affection for every person we meet, we can always treat every person with kindness.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“People only stay in your life if they want to. So often, they just go away. And there’s really nothing you can do.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“A word I read comes to mind: solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“The past is gone. The future is a fantasy. There is only the breath, the moment.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Arguments are almost never about the thing they’re about.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“These folks thought that society had already collapsed. They had dropped out, walked away from—” “The world of men,” I finish. “That’s what my father always said. That the end was already underway.” “Some days it’s hard to argue with that,” says Joy. I think of the fires raging, the virus that’s spreading, the category five hurricanes that have been ravaging coastlines, war all over the world, famine, drought. Maybe he was right.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“All this time, she’d wondered how she could live knowing what darkness awaited. With Shawn, she realized all of it, light and dark, life and death, was one terrible, beautiful mingle, and that the whole point was to just live well, while you could.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Don’t make apologies for being yourself.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“When did the news become worse than any dystopian fiction we could imagine?”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Nobody calls anymore, says Jax. It takes too much time. I hate that cold, stripped-down way we communicate now. I want voices, the nuances of meaning inherent in tone.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Don’t you dare say that. Not ever. Truly. That’s so fucked on so many levels. You are who you are because of everything that made you and that’s beautiful. You’re a survivor. I am the storm? Damn straight.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“When lost wants to stay lost, sometimes you have no choice but to let it go.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“But I think how we treat any one person is how we treat the world, how we treat ourselves.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“want to reach for you, begging, the man I thought you were. And then I think of my mother. Was that how it was for her? Always reaching for someone who was long gone, who perhaps was never there at all. Just a fantasy.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“love—grown-up love—has to be conditional, right? Otherwise it means you don’t love yourself.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Others still see the crow as a symbol of transformation. When he shows up in your life, get ready for change.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“But Jax’s mother Miranda taught us both how to save and invest. Work for your money, and then make your money work for you. That way you never need to rely on any man.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“For me, there’s a tension to all encounters, even the good ones.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“The ability to be quiet with someone, there’s a delicious intimacy to that.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Bookish men in glasses, people who read and think, who hike, meditate.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Would that be so bad? Solitude. It’s not the worst thing in life.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“A name is like a gift, he told her.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“You can choose and create the life you want. You are the author of your reality.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Nothing you buy will make you feel as good as money in the bank.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“feel like when my mother died, she took with her the Mia I saw when she looked at me. I could never find that girl in my own reflection. To Mom, I was special—bright, powerful, beautiful—her angel. To the rest of the world, I was just a girl. Small for my age, shy, passingly pretty, smart enough. Just Mia.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted. This house was a too big, rambling old place, populated by restless ghosts and bad memories. It seemed to rise out of the trees as we grew closer.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“The world is in chaos. It’s not about that. The world has always been on fire. Now, it might not be about saving it, as much as it is about helping each other through it all. Holding each other up, helping, fixing, working together, loving, forgiving. You don’t get to just leave, just make a space and hide there waiting for everything dark and frightening to go away.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“restaurants. Bailey liked New York City better before its Disney-fication, when it was still messy and dangerous, full of style, outrage, art, underground clubs. When you might easily get mugged on the Bowery, or offered drugs on Tenth Street, or propositioned in the Meatpacking District. Now things were homogenized, gentrified. Safer, prettier, Instagrammable. Better, some would no doubt say. But not real, somehow. Somehow packaged and sold. The idea of New York City, the dream of it.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Say what you want about the modern world and all its evils. But the emptiness of the area was starting to press on him.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted