Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 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. “You get really angry when you’re hungry. You get hangry. – Silas Nash.”

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203. “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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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. “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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206. “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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207. “I want to be the peace in his life, not the conflict.”

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

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “We fight because we have things to fight about, it has nothing to do with the wine.”

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

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

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

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

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

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “Because simplicity speaks the loudest.”

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

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Let the heart breaking commence.”

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “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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234. “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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235. “I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.”

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “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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241. “I don’t know much about artists, but I’m beginning to feel as if they possess sorcery.”

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242. “I was selfish that way, wanting people to bend and give me the love I needed, not necessarily the love they knew how to give.”

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243. “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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244. “But I wonder about the people who never suffer from depression,” she says, leaning forward. “How calloused their souls are to feel less than us.” The us rings through my head. “Are they less actualized, less pessimistic, less able to taste the tang of reality on the tips of their tongues? Why are we the broken ones – those who feel things? Who are affected by the changing tides in society?”

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245. “How does a guy tell his girlfriend he has no idea who she is? Who he himself is? He doesn’t tell her. He pretends, just like he’s been pretending with everyone else. – Silas Nash.”

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

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

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249. “When Olivia unleashes an insult you feel like you’re being assaulted by word bullets.”

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

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