Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “It’s a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.”

— Tarryn Fisher

302. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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305. “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

306. “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

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

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308. “Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

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

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

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

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312. “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

313. “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

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

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

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

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

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318. “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

319. “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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320. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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328. “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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329. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

330. “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

331. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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333. “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

334. “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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335. “It feels like parts of me keep being taken; eaten by disease, hacked off, snapped in two.”

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336. “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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337. “Nunca puedes dejar de ver lo que reconoces como una parte de ti mismo.”

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338. “But the truth of the matter – as I’ve come to understand it – is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It’s better to not be thirsty.”

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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342. “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

343. “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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344. “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

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

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

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349. “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

350. “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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