Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six Quotes

“Why did people think that was okay, to kill something and stick its head on your wall?”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Beware that, when fighting monsters,
you yourself do not become a monster.” —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“I didn’t understand depression, how it was a con and a thief of joy. How it lured people away, making them believe that the world was better off without them.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days when everything must be curated and cropped, filtered and brightened. Real life is messy and complicated. Ugly.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the other side of the glass, watching. Even if tireless effort or extraordinary achievement opened the door to that shining universe, its always felt like a mirage. People born to privilege just didn't know anything else. And the destroyer was always waiting, wasn't he?”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certain death, is something distant and remote, an island we might never visit. But for some of us, its right here, waiting.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“She felt rather than saw Bruce frowning.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“She told me I didn’t understand depression, how it was a con and a thief of joy. How it lured people away, making them believe that the world was better off without them.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“cried, too, when he was caught, when he was backed into a corner. A certain type of man—the user, the manipulator, the sociopath—dissolved into tears as a last resort.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“People had babies all the time. Why did no one ever talk about what a wild, over-the-top miracle the whole thing was?”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Her everyday wish. May all people be happy, safe, and free.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Remember that you must die.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Numbers were the opposite of people. People were mysterious.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Once you have a baby, you see it. The world is divided. There were people with kids. And then there were people without kids. Parents remembered what it was like before. But people before parenthood had no idea what it was like afterward.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“when you’re in the thick of it, with so many mistakes behind you, and so many uncertainties again, there’s an inevitable dark night of the soul where you’re being swallowed by the morass of self-doubt.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“death is certain, its time uncertain.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“The Palm Pavilion was a beachfront restaurant famous for its grouper sandwich and live music at sunset. The pretty blue and white building sat on the end of a boardwalk looking out languidly at the Gulf of Mexico and the sugar white sands of Clearwater Beach. It was the perfect sunset spot if you could take the late afternoon heat.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“There’s no waiting around for Prince Charming, Sophia always said. He ain’t coming. Even if he looks like a hero at first, he’ll still turn out to be more little boy than man.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“He didn’t have a ton of time for sunsets, in fact, he found the tourist fascination with the whole thing a little tiresome. Yeah, people, the sun sets. Every. Night.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“When you’re going through hell, keep going,”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“It’s a funny thing that the people who are privileged by history are also the beneficiaries of better record keeping.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“People were so into “nature,” weren’t they? Getting into it, back to it. Why? Nature just seemed spooky and unsafe to Cricket. There was that whole no-one-can-hear-you-screaming vibe.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Hannah was outdoorsy. Cricket felt that her spiritual home might be Neiman Marcus.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Nature was always waiting to take itself back by any means necessary.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“I’m a gamer, he writes in his letter. My YouTube channel has 10K followers. This is how we define ourselves now, our worth determined by how many people like, follow, engage.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“What would I do without you?” he said, and for a moment he sounded sad. She felt a little flash of something—regret, apprehension. Like any couple, they’d had their issues. “You’ll never have to find out.” He would have to find out, of course. Someday. They’d all have to learn what it meant to lose everything. That was the way of it, though most people could scarcely acknowledge that truth.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“In the end, that’s all there is to life. What you create, what you build, what you nurture. It’s about biology, genetics, of course. But most of all, it’s about what you do with what you’re given.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Wanting everything to be perfect is a recipe for misery.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Family was nothing but a series of choices—who to love, how to conceive, to keep your child or give him up, to lie or tell the truth. If he’d learned anything from his romp into genealogy it was that.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

“Henry had a hard time understanding racism. People were just people, right? They might differ in the color of their skin, features, or cultures, but under the skin, they were all the same. He’d read that all humans shared 99 percent of the same DNA. That it was only like 1 percent that accounted for the superficial differences of appearance.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six