Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “I don’t know much about artists, but I’m beginning to feel as if they possess sorcery.”

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253. “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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254. “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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255. “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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256. “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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257. “The best kind of love is the love that isn’t supposed to happen.”

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

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

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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.”

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265. “That’s what writers do – the good ones anyway – we watched and we learned the faux pas of human nature. The delicate ways people came undone, the tiny little frays in the tapestry.”

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

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

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

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “It’s just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved.”

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273. “I shake my shoulders to get rid of all my feels. I hate these people. They’re so annoying. Except I king of like Silas. Kind of.”

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274. “I told myself that I was the one pretending to fit in, but life has taught me that we are all pretenders. Every single one of us.”

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275. “Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write – to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”

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276. “If they could see my heart, they’d understand why my mascara is smudged.”

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277. “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.”

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278. “What’s a Muggle?” he asks, taking it from me. “I save that mug for special people, Kit. Don’t ask questions.”

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279. “You know, the first time I saw you in that bar it was as if someone plugged me into an electrical socket. Everything in my head lit up. I could have written ten songs, answered the age-long question about the meaning of love, and asked you to marry me on the spot.”

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280. “Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs.” I.”

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281. “Sometimes when I’m drunk, I think that loving you is sane.”

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282. “I want you, English. I think about you all the time – no – scratch that. I obsess over you all the time. You’re my muse. Wasn’t that the deal? You’re worth every penny.”

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283. “No one has a right to your happiness.”

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284. “The people who blind themselves to the truth. They’re just trying to survive.” I’m distracted for a minute, my finger suspended over the camera button on my phone. “Who wants to survive without truth?” Greer shrugs, and her shirt slips off her slender shoulder. Perfect. “Maybe people who have had too much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard edges.”

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285. “Do we create our own heroes and then kill them with the truth?”

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286. “We busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us.”

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287. “A woman should never have to fight so hard to be with a man. He should just want her.”

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288. “Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It’s clever – the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.”

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289. “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.”

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290. “I wish I felt self-conscious about my hair, but truth be told, I look hella cute with psycho hair.”

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291. “It was awful to be this person, so jammed up with bad experiences you couldn’t let anyone see your real face.”

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292. “Sadie is keeping the baby, of course, because her dad is a minister, and she is pro-life. Not pro-abstinence.”

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293. “It’s a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.”

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294. “You could search for years and you still won’t be able to know who that woman is, because she doesn’t know herself.”

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295. “It’s all too perfect, I think. When things are that perfect, something is wrong.”

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296. “Every bad thing that happens here reminds people of what they’re trying to forget.”

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297. “I want to go somewhere good when I read, not into someone else’s crappy life.” “Good lives aren’t worth reading about,” he argues. “I read about the struggle. Other people’s growing pains.” “I like happy endings,” I say. “Real life never has a happy ending.” “God, you’re depressing. I don’t know why we’re friends.”

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298. “Neptune looked at a tree I did last week and made a weird sound in the back of his throat. I’m no grunting expert, but it sounded like impressed approval to me. I’ve imitated that sound twice since then – once at a restaurant with Neil who asked me if I had something lodged in my throat, and once on the phone with my mother who wanted to bring me soup for the cold I was coming down with. Some people aren’t good with expressive communication. It’s not their fault.”

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299. “David used to tell me that not believing in God was a defense mechanism against human suffering. It’s easier to say nothing exists than to say something exists and He just lets us suffer.”

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300. “I’m trying to find myself.” Greer grins. “That, my dear, is the scariest thing you’re ever going to do.” “Why is that?” “Because you might not like what you find.”

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