Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Marriage as a whole is uncomfortable. Two people from two different worlds trying to stuff all of their emotional belongings into one joined life.”

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203. “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.”

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204. “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.”

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

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206. “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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207. “Mantras sounded better in Latin. Repeat any phrase in the educated fancy-pants language most of the ancient philosophers used, you sounded like a goddamn genius. Repeat the same phrase in English, you sounded like a loon.”

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208. “Because simplicity speaks the loudest.”

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209. “All he’s concerned about is showing me what I don’t know, not calling attention to that fact that I don’t know it.”

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210. “Aside from the unbearable heart pain, feelings of inadequacy, sporadic tears, and hopelessness, I kind of like being single. You’re not responsible to tell anyone where you are or who you’re with. It’s freedom and loneliness, exhilaration and inner calm.”

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211. “Let the heart breaking commence.”

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212. “You are worth loving. They just don’t have any love to give. Forgive them, Margo.”

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213. “All right, baby. I’m going to go cook some fish I caught with my own hands while you touch your socks.”

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214. “Love is faithful, love is kind, love is patient. Love is not – I wasn’t thinking.”

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215. “I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?”

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216. “I want to be the peace in his life, not the conflict.”

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217. “I was looking for the flaws in others and that was unfair when I had so many myself.”

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218. “Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”

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219. “Without the risk of getting hurt, there is no probability of falling in love,” I tell her. “Vulnerability and love go hand in hand.”

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220. “Gin sort of made me crazy, but crazy was better than boring, and I was feeling wild around the edges.”

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221. “Once you lost your faith, it was gone.”

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222. “I am crouched in the trashy novel section, looking for cheap thrills and deep skills.”

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223. “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. 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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224. “She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their soul, like her Caleb did.”

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225. “I like to buy expensive things. If I wear something that costs more than a month’s salary, I amply feel that the rotting carcass of me is at least shrouded nicely.”

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226. “Women are stuck in a cycle of insecurity perpetuated by the way men treat them, and we are constantly fighting to prove to ourselves and everyone else that we are okay.”

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227. “What I felt for you was love. The poets, the philosophers – they say things about perfect love. How it heals, how it behaves, how it braves all things. But they’re idealizing it. Best-case scenario: love saves the day. But I was the worst-case scenario. Love is sometimes powerful enough to self-destruct. Because when an imperfect person wields the most powerful weapon in the universe, they’re bound to trip over their own feet.”

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228. “Guard your heart, so it doesn’t get broken like mine, my mother used to say as often as twice a week.”

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229. “A woman’s greatest foe is sometimes her hope that she’s imagined it all. That she herself is crazy rather than the circumstances of her life. Funny the emotional responsibility a woman is willing to take on just to maintain an illusion.”

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230. “The best kind of love is the love that isn’t supposed to happen.”

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231. “Life was a game. It was fun when you were an active player.”

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232. “It was the truth! For the truth to make a difference, it needs to be said by one person at a time, until there’s a noise loud enough to make a difference.”

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233. “Of all the things that have happened tonight, that’s what affects me most. The way he so effortlessly drops his bags to catch her. I don’t have much reference since Neil was my one serious boyfriend, though I know he never would have dropped his bags to catch me lest something broke. That causes an ache deep in my chest. To know that there are guys willing to drop their shopping bags to catch their girl. And I want someone to love me that effortlessly.”

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234. “You can love someone your whole life and not know why. You can even live with it.”

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235. “Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.”

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236. “He promised you a lot and he promised it to someone who needed it to be true. There was a disconnect in your relationship – I don’t know where it stems from or why, but he did know that for once in your life you needed to not be let down. He wasn’t selfless enough to do that.” Oh.”

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237. “I’d forgotten to take care of myself. That’s what happened when you were sad.”

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238. “But out in the freezing cold, with the blizzard swirling around me, and my kidnapper’s liquid eyes probing my face, I can’t remember.”

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239. “Leah” Olivia says quietly, “if you point at me again I’m going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now turn around and smile, your daughter is waking up.”

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240. “Groveling was a rite of passage. It’s where you got to look so pathetic no one would want you anyway, but you were sad enough to try.”

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241. “You get really angry when you’re hungry. You get hangry. – Silas Nash.”

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242. “Well, there’s your problem then,” I said, sighing. “When you try to prove your art you’re going to fail every time.”

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243. “It never passes, and it never pauses. It’s like a fist clutched around my heart, squeezing all day long.”

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244. “I don’t know much about artists, but I’m beginning to feel as if they possess sorcery.”

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245. “I was in the middle of an existential crisis and he was making me his person. How could he afford to be that honest? I was cheap. I fell for it because most of us just really want to be wanted.”

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246. “I almost have no nails left by the time his bubble pops up, but that’s cool because everyone has fingernails, and I like to be different.”

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247. “I can make you a part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are. I.”

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248. “That’s what makes you a narcissist. Even in the middle of hurting other people you’re focused on yourself.”

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249. “Beauty was deceiving in the same way credit cards were. It felt like it was free, but there was high interest with little return.”

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250. “That’s why you got married – to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul. I’d yielded my soul to Caleb willingly. Offered it up like a sacrificial lamb.”

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