Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “She decided something about herself and then she sabotaged her own happiness with it. She needed the type of love that stayed no matter what. She needed to see that nothing could devalue her in my eyes.”

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

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303. “Forgiveness is for Buddhists.”

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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312. “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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313. “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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314. “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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315. “Love was just a word until someone gave it a definition.”

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

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

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “People didn’t want to hear the truth. They had their ideas and any deviation made them uncomfortable.”

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “He is a longing I will never cure.”

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

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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.”

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332. “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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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “Today we are here, and tomorrow we are gone, amounted to a handful of memories. It’s freaking depressing.”

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

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “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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342. “Love is not part of something else. It’s the only thing.”

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

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

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

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