Lisa Lutz quotes

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. (Lisa Lutz)
I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.
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I have a weakness for tough guys who read.
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I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.
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I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.
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I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.
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I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.
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....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.
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I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.
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His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
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I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology. (Lisa Lutz)
Somebody is always hiding something.
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ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday. DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why? ISABEL: I was depressed. DR. RUSH: That's a good reason to come to therapy.
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I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.
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We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.
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My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.
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What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.
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Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.
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The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.
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Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.
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I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything. (Lisa Lutz)
My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.
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I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.
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I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.
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When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.
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