Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “There is intimacy in quiet, in being with another person and not needing to say anything.”

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302. “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.”

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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307. “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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308. “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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309. “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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310. “I’ve never loved anyone after you. I never will.”

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

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

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315. “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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316. “If each of our lives represented a page in a book, happiness would be the punctuation.”

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

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “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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321. “People leave – that’s what I was used to – but Isaac showed up.”

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

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

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “That’s good. You don’t forgive because they deserve it. Most of the time they don’t. You forgive to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.”

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328. “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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329. “He is a longing I will never cure.”

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330. “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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331. “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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332. “I was diarrhea and she was merely a bad case of indigestion.”

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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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337. “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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338. “Art is the war against what we do not choose to feel. It’s the battle of color, words, sound, and shape, and it rages for or against love.”

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

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

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

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342. “That’s the nature of the truth, though. What’s fun about being dropped into ice water? That’s why half the world walks around wearing rose-colored glasses, watching comedies and reading romance books.”

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343. “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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344. “Redhead marrying, amnesia getting, bastard!”

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

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

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

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348. “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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349. “It’s like jumping backwards into a snowdrift and not knowing how deeply you’re going to sink.”

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

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