Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Who wants to survive without truth?”

— Tarryn Fisher

352. “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

353. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

354. “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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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357. “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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358. “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.”

— Tarryn Fisher

359. “I marvel at how yearning can make you disintegrate.”

— Tarryn Fisher

360. “Engagement pictures made me want to vomit – especially when they were taken on railroad tracks. I always pictured Thomas the Train rolling over them, his smiley blue face beaded with their blood.”

— Tarryn Fisher

361. “Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself.”

— Tarryn Fisher

362. “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

363. “Why didn’t you just ask?” “Because I don’t do that. Asking questions is at the forefront of developing relationships.”

— Tarryn Fisher

364. “He taught me love, and then inevitably, he taught me loss.”

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365. “I want your babies, and your anger, and your cold blue eyes.”

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366. “Since when did it become easier to be crazy than cheated on, you know? It’s just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved. What.”

— Tarryn Fisher

367. “It’s painful when you remember good things about the person who broke your heart. It’s better to remember the things you hated, if only to keep the anger stronger than the sadness. He.”

— Tarryn Fisher

368. “It’s okay to talk to yourself here; I saw someone else doing it.”

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369. “Because if they’re right about their belief system, there is an ultimate judge anyway, isn’t there? We don’t need human judges.”

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

— Tarryn Fisher

371. “I think of myself as being perfectly photoshopped. If I started scraping at the layers of what I’m suppressing – what I’ve put a pretty picture over – things would start looking pretty ugly.”

— Tarryn Fisher

372. “She walked like a woman who knew she had the world staring at her breasts.”

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373. “Timing is everything when you’re about to tell someone you dreamed him into your heart.”

— Tarryn Fisher

374. “My heart is asleep. We.”

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

— Tarryn Fisher

376. “I was not a face. I was tired of being called pretty. I was tired of people seeing my potential. I could be whoever I wanted to be, and for now, that was a bartender.”

— Tarryn Fisher

377. “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

378. “Because I’m not brave enough to change with everyone watching me. I want to do it alone. I want it to be real.”

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379. “He made my truth light and funny without diminishing the importance of it.”

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380. “That’s why you never smile. You’d be a better man if you drank coffee.”

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381. “Wanting someone to notice you all the while praying no one does.”

— Tarryn Fisher

382. “I’ve grown attached to my broken heart. I think I’ll keep it.”

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383. “Didn’t he know that once words were out, they stuck in people’s minds like barbs?”

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384. “Be bold about your right to be loved.”

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385. “Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause,” Phyllis tells me. I’ve just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. “Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can’t take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.”

— Tarryn Fisher

386. “I think it’s hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can’t control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.”

— Tarryn Fisher

387. “You have one lousy dream, and you think you’re destined for coloring book greatness.”

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388. “Dreams are plans; they get your heart moving, and once your heart gets moving, your brain will follow.”

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389. “The minute I started freely loving Nick he left me.”

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390. “Everyone should have someone who cares enough.”

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391. “It’s not often you get something for free in this life.”

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392. “I’d do it again just to show you I’d do it.”

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393. “You have that thing about you that changes other people.”

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394. “Silas baked me a cake for my birthday. It was awful. I think he forgot the eggs. But it was the most beautiful chocolate failure I’ve ever seen. I was so happy that I didn’t even make a gag face when I ate a slice. But, oh god, it was so bad. Best boyfriend ever.”

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395. “It’s become a cycle we’re unfortunately comfortable with. The longer you stay in an unhealthy relationship, the more druglike it becomes. You’re willing to deal with the side effects because they’re predictable. You can trust the bad in a way you can’t trust the unknown.”

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396. “If what she is saying is true, then the rest of the world is numb, and we who suffer from ailments of the psyche are the ones who are more advanced in nature. We see the decaying of society, the neglect of morals and human decency: the school shootings, the crimes humans commit against one another, the crimes we commit against ourselves; and we react to them in a way that is more intense than everyone else. Yes, I think. Yes, this is the truth.”

— Tarryn Fisher

397. “An invisible hand cracks open my jaw and pours fear down my throat. I choke on it.”

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398. “Caleb had been my imperfection, with his slightly Americanized British accent, and the way he could play any sport and quote any philosopher. He was such a mix of class and jock, romance and jerk, it made me crazy.”

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399. “Wolves know when they’re being raised by bears.”

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400. “I laugh and go back to looking at my magazine. Actually, it’s not really a magazine. It’s a math journal, because I’m super cool like that.”

— Tarryn Fisher