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

“Women are always stronger,” my father said finally, pushing me back to look at me. “Survival won’t just be about might. It will be about endurance, fortitude, courage. Those are female qualities.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Jay’s eyes were dark with hatred, but it was that terrible hatred undercut by fear and longing we can only feel for the parent who is abusing us.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Men. Believe me. He’s not the last Coca-Cola in the desert.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“That is the core problem with being a kid; the adults in your life make decisions and you are carried along in the current of their choices.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“The light of day reveals us all as the same flawed, broken soul trying to survive in this world.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“She won’t fire you. She wants him as bad as we do. Trust me. She’s just giving herself plausible deniability with Diana.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“I am the dream you are dreaming. When you want to awaken, I am that wanting: Rilke’s poems in The Book of Hours are a kind of prayer, his love letters, his one-sided conversation with God.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“What I also don’t say: when I come back here, I’m overcome with homesickness for a place that never existed. A word I read comes to mind: solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia. Glenn Albrecht defines it as the distress of seeing a familiar environment bitterly transformed by drought, fire, flood, war. But it describes perfectly how I feel about my childhood.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

“Her T-shirt reads affably: Don’t like my attitude? Dial 1-800-F*CK-YOU.”
― Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted

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

“So, when you’re done with someone, you can potentially discard him, and realistically expect to never see him or anyone he knows again.”
― 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