Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain, Margo. They use it as fuel.”

— Tarryn Fisher

152. “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

153. “I’m holding everyone accountable, because it takes a village to put someone in a mental institution.”

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154. “When you’re a bartender you can listen to everyone’s dirt without having to be personally involved.”

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155. “I kill because I can. I kill because no one stops me. I kill because no one is stopping them. I kill to protect the innocent.”

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156. “People – our dads, our moms, our friends – they are so broken they don’t even know that most of what they do reflects that brokenness. They just hurt whoever is in their wake. They don’t sit and think about what their hurt is doing to us. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.”

— Tarryn Fisher

157. “I know, I know, I know that I am the match and she is the gasoline and without each other we are just two objects void of reaction.”

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158. “Your silence, Senna, I hear it so loudly.”

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159. “That is male folly; they expect you to always be the same, reliable cow, but women spend their lives changing. Our change can swing for you or against you depending on how fairly we’ve been treated.”

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160. “That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare without your chains.”

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161. “No one has a right to your happiness. It’s a private thing and you have the right to defend it.”

— Tarryn Fisher

162. “Hate is such a prodigious feeling. It’s hot and oppressive like fire. It starts by burning through your God-given reason until there is nothing left of it but a mound of ash. It moves on to your humanity next, hot tongues flicking across the few remaining threads of innocence until they melt into each other and morph into something ugly. Then, in the rubble of what you were, hate plants a seed of bitterness.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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164. “Life was creepy and people were creepier.”

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165. “He’s wearing a white button down, black pants, and suspenders. He’s not my type, but the getup is pretty sexy. Like, put your brother in suspenders and he might become hot too. Okay, that was too far, and I need to stop watching Game of Thrones. Kit.”

— Tarryn Fisher

166. “You’re a dead language, you know that? No one is like you, and you are like no one.”

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167. “I think of the way he kissed me, pulled back, smiled a little, and then kissed me some more. I think of the way he was always feeling me up, no matter where we were. I think of the way he always knew what I was thinking and called me out on it.”

— Tarryn Fisher

168. “Do you speak Parseltongue?” I ask. “What?” His face screws up.”

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

— Tarryn Fisher

170. “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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171. “I did not expect him to give up his music for me, just as much as I did not expect me.”

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172. “For once, I understood the Caleb mania. He was like a jalapeno, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bit him.”

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173. “Trying to walk away from something you love is like trying to drown yourself. You want to, but it’s unnatural to not crave air. Your body demands it; your mind says you need it. Eventually you break to the surface, gasping and unable to deny yourself that basic need of air. Of love. Of fierce desire.”

— Tarryn Fisher

174. “Her pain was so jagged. You couldn’t touch her without it slicing through you too. I wanted to fold myself around her and absorb the rest of the blows life would deliver.”

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175. “Love is a possession; it’s something that you own from the layers of people in your life. But if my life were a cake it would be un-layered, unbaked, missing ingredients. I isolated myself too soundly to own anyone’s love.”

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176. “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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177. “You never quite stop loving someone when you’re in that deep.”

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178. “Margo,” he says into my hair. “I’ll save you, if you save me.”

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179. “Shunned by association.”

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180. “But perhaps art isn’t supposed to make you feel good, but just to make you feel. Does it cure the numb? I don’t know.”

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181. “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. I’ve learned that revolution can be inward or outward. A move across the country to gain perspective. A change of heart and mind to gain sanity. But the point is to revolt when the season changes. If only to quench your thirst, revolt.”

— Tarryn Fisher

182. “Also, gasping is for damsels, and I’m a gangster.”

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183. “You need to remember what it is that someone so desperately wanted you to forget. – Janice Delacroix.”

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

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185. “Don’t look at me like that,” I said. “I’m not broken because I don’t want the same thing as everyone else. And, no, you’re not invited to fix me, or soften my heart, or make me want things I never knew I wanted.”

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186. “She threw barbs, they were well aimed and they made me laugh. If I were a different man I’d have a bruised ego. I took her jabs and molded them to me. She was something I knew existed but had never met: the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow. Terrible analogies, I know. Yara.”

— Tarryn Fisher

187. “I just want you to know that aside from any degree you get, or what job you get, or any accomplishment you make in life, you changed mine. You have that thing about you that changes other people.”

— Tarryn Fisher

188. “Words are a powerful weapon and they never die.”

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189. “My mother hasn’t been speaking to me. She wanted me to forgive Neil, which was fine. There was room in my heart for forgiveness; there wasn’t room in my life for someone who constantly needed it.”

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190. “That’s easy to say until the person you love is happy with someone else. Girls always choose men, and men always choose the wrong girls. It’s an endless cycle.”

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191. “Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity.”

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192. “You’re just raw, and yourself, and beautiful. You don’t need anything from anyone, unless it’s the kind of love that chooses you first, always.”

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193. “My mother is beautiful in the same way that a storm is beautiful. She is wild and destructive, and in the middle of her fury you feel her God given right to destroy.”

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194. “I hate that nothing can be done about the suffering of children, and that most of the world blocks out their suffering to cope with their own inability to help. The few who carry the burden, like social workers and teachers, become weary, burning out after only a few short years, forced to carry the weight that should be shared by a society. Children are vastly overlooked. Their importance underestimated by their size.”

— Tarryn Fisher

195. “Oh, and when you kiss me and pull away to tell me I’m pretty? Don’t like that one damn bit. Why can’t you just be like other guys who ignore their girlfriends? It’s so unfair that I have to deal with this.”

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196. “We fight because we have things to fight about, it has nothing to do with the wine.”

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197. “Leah has red hair, but Olivia has a red personality. And as far as I’m concerned, red belongs to the love of my life.”

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198. “Your thoughts turned from a romantic comedy to a psychological suspense. A genre switch. What a joke. Wedged in-between all of the good memories were dark slivers: fights, text messages, dissonance. You remembered how lonely you’d been feeling, and the dark slivers became more pronounced. They pushed apart the good memories until they stood on their own.”

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199. “We were both on the search for something true at the same time. Sometimes a person’s truth is another person’s love.”

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200. “We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It’s just the reactions we control.”

— Tarryn Fisher