Top 400 Tarryn Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Everyone should have someone who cares enough.”

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

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403. “I started to feel the withdrawals right then and there. I’d replaced wanderlust with a human. That was a terrible mistake.”

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404. “You choose to believe them, because you need to.”

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405. “I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.”

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406. “You don’t need anything from anyone, unless it’s the kind of love that chooses you first, always.”

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407. “Be good and be kind,” I tell her. “No matter how pretty you grow up to be.”

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408. “He touches right where it hurts, and then all of a sudden it doesn’t hurt.”

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409. “He was too much and I was too little.”

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410. “Pain makes humans selfish.”

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411. “That’s how the truth works. If you avoid looking at it, you can pretend it’s not there.”

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412. “She was back to her old ways. Sweeping pieces of crazy under the rug.”

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413. “But I know that as humans we want to be heard, and so when someone does the hearing, we feel a connection to them.”

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414. “Does a woman still have to explain herself when she doesn’t want children?”

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415. “We’re laughing because you’re all the same.”

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416. “I’ve become that woman – the one who is made happy by the happiness of others. It’s disappointing to me, that I’ve forgotten myself entirely.”

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417. “People treat being sick in the body as fine, normal, empathy-worthy; they’ll bring you soup and medicine, and press the back of their hand to your forehead. But if they think you’re sick in the mind, it’s different. It’s mostly your fault – I say “mostly” because people have been told again and again that mental illness isn’t a choice – it’s chemical.”

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418. “Yeah, I guess I like that she doesn’t care. I’ve always wanted to not care.”

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419. “I remember thinking how fragile we were as humans, souls covered in tender flesh and brittle bone; one wrong step and we became someone else entirely.”

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420. “We were all copycats, weren’t we? We saw celebrities wearing high-waisted jeans and then we wore them. Our friends listened to music that we immediately downloaded and became obsessed with. We were a generation of see it, want it, take it.”

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421. “His voice is like raspy sandpaper dipped in whisky.”

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422. “Estoy en una niebla y la mitad del tiempo ni siquiera me doy cuenta de ello.”

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423. “A woman in love loses her sight first and then her courage.”

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424. “Maybe the real me kept running on that trail, and what he grabbed was a different part. Maybe you could detach from the ugly things that happened to you. But even as I opened the door I knew it wasn’t true. I felt to much fear.”

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425. “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. I feel better knowing I’m not alone, that the whole world is as fragile and lonely as I am.”

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426. “We all do don’t we? We are consumed with our own mortality. Some people eat right and exercise to preserve their lives, others drink and do drugs daring fate to take theirs, and then there are the floaters – the ones who try to ignore their mortality altogether because they’re afraid of it.”

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427. “You don’t have to be alone. We are mostly born that way, though. We grow up being nurtured to believe that the other half of our soul is somewhere out there. And since there are six billion people inhabiting our planet, chances are one of them is for you. To find that person, to find your soul-piece, or your great love, we must count on our paths diverging, the tangling of lives, the soft whispering of one soul recognizing another.”

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428. “In a world where you’re given everything, the thing they tell you not to want is what you want the most.”

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429. “The truth is often angry.”

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430. “You don’t have to give up something you love just because other people disapprove.”

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431. “There were three types of people as far as Rainy was concerned: the people who knew who they were, the people who didn’t and the people who didn’t want to.”

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432. “You only love the rain on your terms. Washington was too much; here is too little.”

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433. “When you’re an adult you can control who you allow into your life, but you can’t control how they’ll behave once they’re there.”

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434. “The doctor is teaching me to cope with my shame, to deal with it. “Make decisions you can live with... ” he says to me.”

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435. “There’s a line Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Though she be but little, she is fierce.”

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436. “She tried not to say the wrong things, but it was hard to know what exactly it was that made adults upset – they were like seesaws.”

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437. “One voice, where it mattered, could change the course of history.”

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438. “She was a void; you couldn’t frighten something that didn’t exist.”

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439. “When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you’d surrender it willingly.”

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440. “You have to believe someone sometime, Senna. When they tell you that. Otherwise you’ll never know what it feels like to be loved. And that’s a sad thing.”

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441. “You couldn’t fix a child – they didn’t need fixing right out of the box. Kids just needed a healthy example of love to thrive beneath.”

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