Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.”

— Tarryn Fisher

302. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

304. “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

305. “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

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

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

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308. “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

309. “He looks at me then, and suddenly I know that people are what you truly need to be afraid of. People with eyes that communicate. People who can hurt you so hard you’d wish you were never born.”

— Tarryn Fisher

310. “I fell for it because most of us just really want to be wanted.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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312. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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315. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

322. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

323. “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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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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

325. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

332. “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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333. “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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334. “He is a longing I will never cure.”

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335. “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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336. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

337. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

338. “I was diarrhea and she was merely a bad case of indigestion.”

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339. “I don’t like working out of any kind. Not the body or the heart. Just thinking about working things out makes me tired.”

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340. “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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341. “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?”

— Tarryn Fisher

342. “When you’ve been hurt and you’re trying to be okay. You can’t let people know they have power over you.”

— Tarryn Fisher

343. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

344. “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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345. “Silas grins. “I don’t know myself well, but I can tell I have a lot of game.”

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346. “Did she love me? I’d never know because I’d never ask. That was the thing about pride, it shortsighted our hearts.”

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347. “Their story will never be over. She’s married, you know? So, technically you have some time to make your husband fall in love with you.”

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348. “Redhead marrying, amnesia getting, bastard!”

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349. “Do I look like I need to drink diet?”

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350. “Of course I want to, but I would look like a bad person if I didn’t object at all.”

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