Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m not a follower, but I’m not brave enough to be the leader either. I don’t see this as a flaw; it’s a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.”

— Tarryn Fisher

52. “Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model.”

— Tarryn Fisher

53. “People rely on you. You can’t just go down a different path and not warn anyone.”

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54. “How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? How many times can I wish to not be alive? How can one human being cause such a crack in my existence?”

— Tarryn Fisher

55. “It’s the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.”

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56. “Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness.”

— Tarryn Fisher

57. “Now that I’ve been thoroughly mind f – ked, I need a cigarette...”

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58. “We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.”

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59. “Love is a Godgiven tool, she tells me. It screws things back in place that were loose, and it cleans out all the broken pieces that you don’t need anymore.”

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60. “No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. I read a book about that once. A bunch of drivel about two people who kept coming back to each other. The lead male says that to the girl he keeps letting get away. I had to put the book down. No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. It’s a concept smart authors feed to their readers. It’s slow poison; you make them believe it’s real, and it keeps them coming back for more. Love is cocaine.”

— Tarryn Fisher

61. “I believe in loneliness so deep and profound it has a physical presence.”

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62. “But the truth is that the heart’s desire is a mere current against the tide of nurture and nature. You can spend your whole life swimming against it and eventually you’ll get tired and the current of genes and upbringing will pull you under.”

— Tarryn Fisher

63. “As far as I was concerned children had bipolar disorder. They were angry, unpredictable, emotional ambulance-sirens with pigtails, grubby hands and food-crusted mouths that twisted from smiles to frowns and back again as quick as a breath. No, thank you very much. If I wanted a three-foot warlord as my master, I’d hire a rabid monkey to do the job.”

— Tarryn Fisher

64. “That’s why writers write – to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”

— Tarryn Fisher

65. “Olivia is a piece of art. You have to know how to interpret her, how to see the beauty under the harsh lines of her personality.”

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66. “We are all sheep, who get jobs, and have babies, and diet, and try to carve something special out for ourselves using the broken hearts, and bored minds, and scathed souls life delivered to us.”

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67. “Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

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68. “I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.”

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69. “He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.”

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70. “I take my first step and then my second, and right before the door closes, I look once more over my shoulder. Caleb is still under the tree, he winks at me, and I smile.”

— Tarryn Fisher

71. “The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.”

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72. “I had a hand fetish. His hands were big, probably beneficial for that stupid sport he played. His were the kind of hands that made wedding rings look sexy – tan with vein lines that ran like snaking rivers to his wrist and disappeared under his sleeves.”

— Tarryn Fisher

73. “My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.”

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74. “We are all pretenders in life, finding a patch of humanity that we relate to, and then embrace it.”

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75. “No necesitas nada de nadie, a menos que sea el tipo de amor que te elige primero, siempre.”

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76. “No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.”

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77. “You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.”

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78. “I imagine that being wanted is the greatest feeling. A feeling that solidifies your stay in this life, justifies it.”

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79. “And the minute you realize that we are all pretenders is the minute everything stops intimidating you: punishment, and failure, and death. Even people. There is nothing so ingenious about another human who has pretended well. They are, in fact, just another soul, perhaps more clever, better at failing than you are. But not worth a second of intimidation.”

— Tarryn Fisher

80. “We are all going to die, but I’m going to die first. In the very last second of my life, I will think of you. Senna.”

— Tarryn Fisher

81. “That’s the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised.”

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82. “I’ve never been in love, not until her, and I never want to be again – it hurts. Love hurts in the way a toothache hurts: you can’t ignore it, and it’s always there throbbing and aching, reminding you... of what? I think desperately. What is it reminding you of? That you’re human. That you have weakness. That your weakness is another person.”

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83. “One is a choice, and one is not.”

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84. “Life always keeps moving, even if it has to drag you along, kicking and screaming.”

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85. “Who is safe? No one. There is too much bad, too much evil in the world to ever be safe.”

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86. “This is a fast love culture, where people fall in and out of something so sacred you wonder if it has the same meaning it did a hundred years ago.”

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87. “How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met.”

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88. “You are the woman I know how to love. The only woman I want to love.”

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89. “I’m folding my emotions like a piece of paper – a tiny square, into a tiny square, into a tiny square. When they’re folded up enough I can leave them in a corner of my mind somewhere, to be forgotten.”

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90. “It’s time to stop waiting, isn’t it? To be ready. For life to start. I’m not even sure what I was waiting for.”

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91. “I make you vulnerable because you love me. That’s the price you pay for love, baby girl.”

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92. “Love comes slow, but God does it go fast.”

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93. “It’s human nature to want to fix things. That was my first thought, actually, but you’re right. Someone should take you as you are, not have an agenda for how they want to change you.”

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94. “But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes – both peaceful and angry. The way its mood changes every day. The way it washes some things away and drags some things to your feet.”

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95. “The thief of love was ego. How weak was love that it could not sustain insecurity? Wasn’t it supposed to do the opposite?”

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96. “I don’t want to be someone’s ‘girl who got away.’ I want to be someone’s ’girl who’d I’d never let get away.”

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97. “The kiss. The kiss. The kiss. It was chocolate cake and fizzy passion and goose bumps. No one had ever kissed me like that.”

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98. “You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.”

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99. “How hard we strive for happiness, and once we finally have the elusive feeling in our grasp, we hold it briefly, like water as it trickles through our fingers.”

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100. “Atheists who kneel and pray, the voice sings. Begging for just anything. Non-believers bitten down to the core. Pass them a word, give them a string. When you’re dying you cling. Yara, Yara, the god of disbelief. I worship between your legs. Pray to your fallacy, pray to your winter. You kill everything.”

— Tarryn Fisher