Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Do you speak Parseltongue?” I ask. “What?” His face screws up.”

— Tarryn Fisher

202. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

203. “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?”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

205. “I want to be fireproof. Nothing should have the power to break my heart.”

— Tarryn Fisher

206. “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

207. “We’re all just waiting for someone to stand behind us, aren’t we? Even if it’s just one person, it gives you strength.”

— Tarryn Fisher

208. “Marriage as a whole is uncomfortable. Two people from two different worlds trying to stuff all of their emotional belongings into one joined life.”

— Tarryn Fisher

209. “The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I’ve always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it’s time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.”

— Tarryn Fisher

210. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

212. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

213. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

216. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

217. “I’ve never eaten scallops, but he tells me they’re his favorite. They have the texture of a tongue, and I briefly consider that he’s sending me a message.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

219. “I was quiet about the things I saw, but I saw.”

— Tarryn Fisher

220. “They want to be worshipped. They want a woman who thinks they’re the greatest, strongest, most virile.”

— Tarryn Fisher

221. “Darkness is all I’ll ever know; maybe the key is to make poetry out of it.”

— Tarryn Fisher

222. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

223. “I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.”

— Tarryn Fisher

224. “That’s good. You don’t forgive because they deserve it. Most of the time they don’t. You forgive to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

229. “Life is all about allowing people choices to be who they want. But the majority of people choose to be worthless.”

— Tarryn Fisher

230. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

232. “Because simplicity speaks the loudest.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

235. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

236. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

238. “What does it feel like? I ask myself. Like cold air in your lungs after too much warm air. Maybe this is how you feel when you find your place in the world.”

— Tarryn Fisher

239. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

240. “Let the heart breaking commence.”

— Tarryn Fisher

241. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

242. “My drug was wanderlust. I got high by starting over. We always had a drug. We could replace one with another, but humans were addicts.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

244. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

245. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

246. “That’s the nature of the truth, though. What’s fun about being dropped into ice water? That’s why half the world walks around wearing rose-colored glasses, watching comedies and reading romance books.”

— Tarryn Fisher

247. “Music tells a lot about a person. I don’t have to have a memory to know that. – Charlize “Charlie” Wynwood.”

— Tarryn Fisher

248. “If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation.”

— Tarryn Fisher

249. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

250. “I look away. I’m tired of liking him. I only have a day and a half worth of memories, but they’re all filled with me not hating Silas. And now He’s made it his personal mission to make me love him.”

— Tarryn Fisher