Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.”

— Tarryn Fisher

252. “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

253. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

262. “Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

264. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

265. “What you’re doing – it’s the right thing. Going after what you love despite everything you’ve done, and I won’t sugarcoat it, you’ve done some pretty lousy things, but you did it all because you love this single human being so much you couldn’t help yourself. There is an honesty to that.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

269. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

273. “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?”

— Tarryn Fisher

274. “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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275. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

277. “Maybe life is about living with the hauntings.”

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

— Tarryn Fisher

279. “It’s just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

284. “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

285. “Nothing is better than the discovery of another living, breathing human, who fights the same as you do, loves the same as you do, and understands you with such clarity that it feels erotic.”

— Tarryn Fisher

286. “Love was just a word until someone gave it a definition.”

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

289. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

291. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

293. “She decided something about herself and then she sabotaged her own happiness with it. She needed the type of love that stayed no matter what. She needed to see that nothing could devalue her in my eyes.”

— Tarryn Fisher

294. “I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.”

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295. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

296. “There is intimacy in quiet, in being with another person and not needing to say anything.”

— Tarryn Fisher

297. “I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself. And while diamonds are embraced with warm excitement, regarded to be of highest, deepest value, the pearl is somewhat overlooked. 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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

298. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

299. “I cannot hate the dream; the dream woke me up.”

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300. “I loved flawed art. Michelangelo’s statue of Lorenzo with its warped base that rose to accommodate his foot, the Mona Lisa’s missing eyebrows. Flaws were seriously underrated. They were beautiful if you looked at them just so.”

— Tarryn Fisher