Quotes from Lisa Unger

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?