Black Out Quotes

“Most of us don’t live in the present tense. We dwell in a mental place where our regrets and grudges from our past compete with our fears about the future. Sometimes we barely notice what’s going on around us, we’re so busy time traveling.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“Let’s love our girls well and protect their spirits, Introduce them to their own strength and power, and Keep them as bright and beautiful as the day they were born.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“It’s not how we feel about someone that makes us love them, Annie, it’s how they make us feel about ourselves.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“He’s dead, Annie. But as long as you haven’t dealt with the memories of the things he has done to you, he’ll live on. We’ll always have to face these times when you think he’s returned for you. You’ll never be free.” It”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“Most of us don’t live in the present tense. We dwell in a mental place where our regrets and grudges from our past compete with our fears about the future. Sometimes we barely notice what’s going on around us, we’re so busy time traveling. Before Victory was born, I could spend whole days trying to sort out the things that have happened to me, the terrible mistakes I’ve made. I marinated in my anger and self-loathing, cataloged all the different ways my parents failed me, cast myself as the victim and played the role like I was gunning for a gold statuette. Motherhood”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“No one ever talks about issues like dissociative identity disorder, fugue, or psychotic breaks in anything but the most negative light. No one ever talks about how the personality does this type of thing to protect itself, to save itself, or how powerful and effective it is.” I”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“I agree. I have a therapist now, one with whom I’m actually honest, and we’ve been over the events of my life again and again—rehashing without judgment the things I’ve done, the things that have been done to me, and how I ultimately saved myself.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out

“He'd seen Volkswagens that were smaller than the ring on her finger.”
― Lisa Unger, Black Out