Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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.”

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

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “He is a longing I will never cure.”

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

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs.” I.”

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

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313. “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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314. “No one has a right to your happiness.”

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

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

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319. “Don’t hurt your brain. This is awkward for all of us except June, who likes being awkward. Hello, from us to you. Now move aside; we are hungry for raw fish.”

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320. “Be careful, David, I wanted to say. He was trying to see into me and that was never a good idea.”

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321. “Her parties are always the best. She gets the top shelf liquor and plays only eighties music, which is fine by me. Dancing drunk to the eighties is life. But, more than that, she makes a point of inviting handsome men as an incentive for her girlfriends to attend. I’d be fine with just the expensive booze, but I suppose the scenery is a nice plus.”

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322. “An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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323. “As far as I was concerned children had bipolar disorder. They were angry, unpredictable, emotional ambulance-sirens with pigtails, grubby hands and food crusted mouths that twisted from smiles to frowns and back again as quick as a breath.”

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324. “In its place is a framed print of a pressed poppy. It depresses me. Pressed flowers are an attempt to hold on to something that was once alive. They’re desperate and lonely.”

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325. “Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. 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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326. “When you’ve been hurt and you’re trying to be okay. You can’t let people know they have power over you.”

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327. “Today we are here, and tomorrow we are gone, amounted to a handful of memories. It’s freaking depressing.”

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328. “But you are very good at passion. And if you have enough passion, you can almost learn to do anything well.”

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329. “I’ve never loved anyone after you. I never will.”

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330. “I can’t stay the way I am. I don’t remember what it’s like to be free. To be wide open without fear. I need something to break me. Just enough so that I have new pieces to work with – make them into something else. I don’t want to give anyone the right to treat me like a loser. I don’t want to be fat, I don’t want to live in the Bone, I don’t want to be without knowledge. I won’t be the girl who people laugh at. Not anymore. Good thing I memorized their license plate. Just in case.”

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331. “He runs his hand over his face, and suddenly the cocky joker is gone, and I can see all of his shadows.”

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332. “It’s like he’s seeing the only thing that matters. I am sickly familiar with the way he looks at Olivia, because it is the way I look at him.”

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333. “Love is not part of something else. It’s the only thing.”

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334. “The sum of all the things we shouldn’t have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.”

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335. “You are going to destroy me, you know that?’ I knew.”

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336. “She’s beautiful, but in a shameful way. One I’m not sure I’m supposed to appreciate. Everything about her is captivating, like the aftermath of a storm. People aren’t supposed to get pleasure out of destruction Mother Nature is capable of, but we want to stare anyway. – Silas Nash.”

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337. “I like my scars,” I say. “I earned them. Now, get out.”

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338. “You can go crazy just from realizing you’re crazy.”

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339. “I want to fight with you about stupid things and then hold you down in my bed and make it up to you.”

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340. “She gets up, and I see her march to the front of the plane where the flight attendant meets her. I point my straw at her back and whisper, “Avada Kedavra.”

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341. “People didn’t want to hear the truth. They had their ideas and any deviation made them uncomfortable.”

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342. “Hos before bros!” I yell at the phone. But it’s too late. A bro came, and both the hos are in turmoil.”

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343. “Fighting was the sandpaper that smoothed out the first years of a relationship. Sure, there was still plenty of lifelong grit after that, but the fighting stripped everything down, let the other person know what was important to you.”

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344. “Seattle gives you your breath back. Fills your lungs. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life.”

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345. “The most twisted thing about being an artist comes when you understand you’re creating for one specific person. The painful part is realizing who that person is, and the devastating part is knowing the compulsion will never go away.”

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346. “People leave – that’s what I was used to – but Isaac showed up.”

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347. “Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure.”

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348. “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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349. “Why didn’t you just ask?” “Because I don’t do that. Asking questions is at the forefront of developing relationships.”

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350. “He taught me love, and then inevitably, he taught me loss.”

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