Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “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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254. “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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255. “I don’t know much about artists, but I’m beginning to feel as if they possess sorcery.”

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256. “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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257. “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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258. “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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259. “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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260. “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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261. “The best kind of love is the love that isn’t supposed to happen.”

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

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264. “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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265. “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.”

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

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “How often do we lie to ourselves and say we don’t care about something when we do?”

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

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

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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “It never passes, and it never pauses. It’s like a fist clutched around my heart, squeezing all day long.”

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

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

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280. “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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281. “No one has a right to your happiness.”

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

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

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

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288. “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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289. “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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290. “It’s a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.”

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

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

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.”

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297. “Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

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298. “What type of world was this where the people who you thought loved you the most were the betrayers?”

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

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

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