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Love, a promise delivered already broken.
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Lisa Unger |
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When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it's like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.
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Lisa Unger |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants "whose virtues had not yet been discovered."
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Lisa Unger |
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When they're small, they're part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.
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Lisa Unger |
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The human mind, with all its mystery, bears endless study. Doesn't it?
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Lisa Unger |
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There is no external refuge." Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I"
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Lisa Unger |
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I think we draw people into our lives...It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs...For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.
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Lisa Unger |
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Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.
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Lisa Unger |
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Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven't experimented. I've found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.
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Lisa Unger |
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You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually,"
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Lisa Unger |
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It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.
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Lisa Unger |
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.
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Lisa Unger |
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things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover.
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Lisa Unger |
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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.
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Lisa Unger |
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The girl with the pictures on her skin
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Lisa Unger |
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Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits.
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Lisa Unger |
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Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.
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Lisa Unger |
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Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
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Lisa Unger |
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He didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Lisa Unger |
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I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.
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Lisa Unger |
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I liked how she never offered any physical comfort. I appreciate people who have a healthy respect for personal boundaries. Our culture is too touchy-feely; everyone wants a hug these days. But Dr. Cooper just sat and was present.
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Lisa Unger |
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Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.
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Lisa Unger |
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It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.
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Lisa Unger |
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Eloise thought that justice was a funny thing. It was a big idea, a romantic one. It was imagined like a satisfying end to a story.
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Lisa Unger |
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Dreams come true, I guess, just not always how you imagine them.
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Lisa Unger |
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We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things have their impact and can't be undone. To judge those experiences, to hate the things that have happened to us is to hate who we've become because of them.
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Lisa Unger |
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We don't choose where we come from, Marshall. And we often have little to say about what happens to us. But the adult understands that he and he alone is responsible for his life. You have choices now, choices that will affect your future.
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Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She
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Lisa Unger |
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She'd spun a web around Maggie's son without his knowing it, without even perhaps her intention. Spider silk was stronger than chain if you happened to be a fly. There
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Lisa Unger |
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But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.
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Lisa Unger |
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The years grew over that embrace like a vine.
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Lisa Unger |
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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
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Sarah's death and how it haunted you, how you were swallowed by your guilt. But your mother was at least partially responsible for how you handled that situation as well. Let's not forget that you were just a kid. With the right guidance, you might have come through that incident better." Jones"
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Lisa Unger |
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As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.
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Lisa Unger |
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There was and always had been a drive within me to know the truth of things.
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Lisa Unger |
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Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn't. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt like hell: Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes,"
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Lisa Unger |
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They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are
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Lisa Unger |
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Something about her called away a piece of him, and it floated through the air and she breathed it in, and it was forever lost to her.
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Lisa Unger |
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I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.
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Lisa Unger |
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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
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Lisa Unger |
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. --John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Lisa Unger |
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What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he'd stepped out of himself. He'd slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized.
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Lisa Unger |
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Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes,"
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Lisa Unger |
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But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it.
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