Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever experienced, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel it anyway. 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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153. “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.”

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154. “Every pretentious, made up moment of my life will be yours. Welcome, follower!”

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

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156. “You are a lot uglier than you think, plenty more selfish than you are ever likely to admit. So, you ignore what’s inside of you. Thinking if you don’t acknowledge it, it’s not really there. Until someone unlikely comes along and cracks you. They see every dark corner, and they get it. And they tell you it’s okay to have dark corners, instead of making you feel ashamed of them.”

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157. “Divorce isn’t supposed to happen, but it does, and no one really knows how to deal with it. It frees you of one thing while imprisoning you with a thousand others. Life isn’t even remotely fair.”

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158. “Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain, Margo. They use it as fuel.”

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

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

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161. “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.”

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “No one has a right to your happiness. It’s a private thing and you have the right to defend it.”

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167. “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.”

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

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169. “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.”

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170. “You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to be over and you’ll never have taken any risks.”

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

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

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173. “There is no moving on when you’re truly in love. You try and you keep trying, but that love is a stain on your life. it’s just not that easy.”

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174. “Don’t make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.”

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

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “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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180. “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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181. “You never quite stop loving someone when you’re in that deep.”

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

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183. “Shunned by association.”

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

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

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187. “When you spend extraordinary amounts of time pushing someone away, their reaction to your apology tends to be slow.”

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188. “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.”

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

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

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191. “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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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.”

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

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196. “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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197. “It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to an artist this way. No one else would get it. “Do.”

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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.”

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