Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I want to be fireproof. Nothing should have the power to break my heart.”

— Tarryn Fisher

202. “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. You don’t have to shave.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

204. “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

205. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “Because simplicity speaks the loudest.”

— Tarryn Fisher

210. “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

211. “Let the heart breaking commence.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

214. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

218. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

223. “How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? How many times can I wish to not be alive? How can one human being cause such a crack in my existence? I alternate between periods of numbness and inconceivable pain all in the span of – an hour? An hour feels like a day, a day feels like a week. I want to live, and then I want to die. I want to cry, and then I want to scream.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

227. “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

228. “I didn’t eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

230. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

233. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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235. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

237. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

238. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

239. “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

240. “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

241. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

243. “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

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

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

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246. “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

247. “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

248. “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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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.”

— Tarryn Fisher