I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. Lisa Unger More Quotes by Lisa Unger More Quotes From Lisa Unger Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself. Lisa Unger powerful prayer math There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. Lisa Unger good-life dark past Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it. Lisa Unger self matter discovery The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. Lisa Unger future-and-present mystery past You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home. Lisa Unger mother home bye Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time. Lisa Unger accepting I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did. Lisa Unger skins body together And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life. Lisa Unger party home sleep Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble. Lisa Unger bored drama people We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones Lisa Unger looking-for-love dream feelings Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. Lisa Unger arrogance rage overcoming Today something interesting happened. I died. Lisa Unger happened today interesting anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't. Lisa Unger hips used It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable? Lisa Unger punishment too-late thinking I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people. Lisa Unger character people thinking If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist. Lisa Unger psychiatrist ifs When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love. Lisa Unger passion young easy The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her. Lisa Unger naive envy seems Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate. Lisa Unger shields judgment safe There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer. Lisa Unger taken sleep moving
