Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

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303. “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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304. “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.”

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

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306. “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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307. “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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308. “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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309. “If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation.”

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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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314. “People leave – that’s what I was used to – but Isaac showed up.”

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

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

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317. “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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318. “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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319. “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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320. “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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321. “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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322. “He is a longing I will never cure.”

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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “I was diarrhea and she was merely a bad case of indigestion.”

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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “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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332. “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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333. “An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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334. “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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335. “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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336. “I like my scars,” I say. “I earned them. Now, get out.”

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

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339. “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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340. “I was a passive aggressive coward. That sort of thing clung to your flesh like a smell, rot turned inside out. People could sense it on you; it caused them to be distrustful. It was hard to make friends when you had the smell, hard to keep them when you did make them. You held back from them and they held back from you, an even trade of nothingness.”

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

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344. “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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345. “Who wants to survive without truth?”

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346. “When I left, I had just been one of his heartbreaks, not his first. The first was powerful; it changed you. My own had been so devastating, altering the way I looked at men and love. And it wasn’t something that just wore off with time, returning you to your previous state of belief. Once you lost your faith, it was gone.”

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347. “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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348. “I love it when you speak Harry Potter to me.”

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349. “Love is something that happens to you. You don’t necessarily invite it in.”

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350. “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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