Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “We fight because we have things to fight about, it has nothing to do with the wine.”

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

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204. “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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205. “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.”

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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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.”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “That’s what makes you a narcissist. Even in the middle of hurting other people you’re focused on yourself.”

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

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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.”

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219. “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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220. “Let the heart breaking commence.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.”

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

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

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228. “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.”

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

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

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “Because simplicity speaks the loudest.”

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

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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.”

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

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237. “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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238. “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.”

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239. “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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240. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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246. “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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247. “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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248. “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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249. “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.”

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250. “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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