Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “That’s the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don’t ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.”

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102. “And I know I’m wearing a slutty dress, and my hair is a mess, and people are looking at me. But they can’t see my heart.”

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103. “I loved him with everything in me. He taught me who I was, something I never would have known, without his deft handling of my personality.”

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104. “And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness.”

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105. “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

106. “I’ve been all three. And now I’m undecided.”

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107. “The moon is wicked, jealous of the sun. People do bad things in the dark, under the hollow gaze of the moon. It’s smiling at me now, proud of my sin. I’m not proud. I’m not anything. An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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108. “Come back to me. Come back. Come.”

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109. “Underneath my skin and underneath the sinewy tendons of muscle, my bones are rattling. Rrrrrra ta ta ta My marrow cries out, reminding me of who I am. I am Margo Moon.”

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110. “A woman’s heart was an awful curse.”

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111. “Olivia. I’ve lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn’t work our way through it, and the third time – this time – I’ve lost her to Noah.”

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112. “Men don’t cheat because they’re not in love, they cheat because they don’t feel loved.”

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113. “This is something I’ve learned. You can’t run away to find yourself. Yourself is there no matter where you go.”

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114. “The people who blind themselves to the truth. They’re just trying to survive.”

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115. “How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?”

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116. “You young people treat love like it’s an accessory, not a matter of life and death. You’re amused by it, in love with the idea of it. You make all of your songs and books about it, but don’t know how to live it out. Love is not part of something else. It’s the only thing.”

— Tarryn Fisher

117. “Instead, I clear my throat. “Oh yeah? You almost became a dad, Kit. That’s a scary life cocktail you’re mixing.” He’s quiet for a long time.”

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118. “Why are you here?” “Because you are.”

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119. “Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don’t even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains.”

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120. “There was a certain butt naked feeling when you told someone you were an artist. It was sort of like telling them you’d been to prison.”

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121. “Be bold about your right to be loved. And most importantly, don’t be ashamed of where you’ve come from, or the mistakes you’ve made. In blindness, love will exhume you.”

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122. “People said, find your tribe. But, who was my tribe, and where were they?”

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123. “Embrace the lows so that you can more effectively enjoy the highs. Love the fight. Love it so much, and let it save you when your emotional muscles have become soft.”

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124. “There are cities that take your breath away by their sheer size; some by the beat of their rhythmic culture, but Seattle gives you your breath back. Fills your lungs. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life. My God, it’s like I’ve been looking for this place all along. My.”

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125. “Waiting... waiting... that’s what women do. We wait for him to get home, we wait for him to pay attention to us, wait to be treated fairly – for our worth to be seen and acknowledged. Life is just a waiting game for women.”

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126. “I was afraid of him. He was outplaying me, plucking all of my weapons from my fingers and making me feel like a toothless tiger.”

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127. “I didn’t want to hurt myself anymore because it hurt you.”

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128. “She’s not the enemy. She’s just a dirty fighter.”

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129. “I feel slightly left behind; like I am waking from a coma and finding out the world moved on without me. Why do I still feel the same when everyone else is different?”

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130. “My heart is still broken. I’m trying to figure out how to live without what I really want. That includes letting go of old dreams and making some new ones.”

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131. “You’re chasing him, but who’s chasing you?”

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132. “Do you speak Parseltongue?”

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133. “I waited for years for a sign that you loved me, and there it was. Go big or go home, right, English?”

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134. “What you wrap around your soul determines your outcome.”

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135. “I would give anything to have that memory back – to see what it was like between us when we loved each other enough to believe it was forever. – Silas Nash.”

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136. “You don’t have to be enough for me or anyone. I love you as you are. I don’t want you to ever feel pressured to be something for me. That takes the ease out of real love.”

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137. “She burned hot enough to keep everyone away. It was a good trick, except I played with fire.”

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138. “He kissed me with color, with drumbeat, and a surgeon’s precision. He kissed me with who he was, the sum of his life – and it was all encompassing. I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.”

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139. “I feel compressed. 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. That’s how I deal, isn’t it? And sometimes, on a day like today, I imagine that my brain is littered with hundreds of bastard feelings I won’t claim.”

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140. “There is only war in love,” he says. “If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re lying. The constant fight to keep love relevant, while growing and changing as a human, is the battle. You fight for them, fight to keep them, fight to love them. Do you fight for yourself, or do you fight for the relationship? What can’t you live without? There’s your answer.”

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141. “Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter.”

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142. “Nothing wrong with having different interests and loving each other the same.”

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143. “Don’t be upset that you can’t attain constant happiness. It’s the quickest way to feel like a failure in life. If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation. It breaks up the parts that are too long. It closes off some things, divides others. But it’s brief – showing up when it’s needed and filling tired paragraphs with breaks.”

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144. “If I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life. That I’d be the one to slay dragons for that kiss.”

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145. “Just because you hurt my damn feelings doesn’t mean I want you to go,” he said. “My feelings are my problem, not yours.”

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146. “Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.”

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147. “Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can’t take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.”

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148. “I find a job; I go back to being me. I don’t remember my dreams anymore.”

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149. “The moon is wicked, jealous of the sun. People do bad things in the dark, under the hollow gaze of the moon. It’s smiling at me now, proud of my sin.”

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150. “If a man introduces his male friend to his extraordinary new girlfriend, his friend will think – I want a girl like that. If a woman introduces her new boyfriend to her female friend, the friend will not think – I want a man like that, but rather, I want that very man.”

— Tarryn Fisher