Top 100 Tarryn Fisher Quotes
#1. I kill because I can. I kill because no one stops me. I kill because no one is stopping them. I kill to protect the innocent.
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#3. The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it's time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.
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#4. She will be your destruction. She's not healthy."
"Then let her destroy me.
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#5. Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.
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#6. I feel slightly left behind; like I am waking from a coma and finding out the world moved on without me. Why do I still feel the same when everyone else is different?
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#7. I have a disease called can't keep your fucking mouth shut.
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#8. I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.
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#9. A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?
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#10. The door moved aside like a curtain, revealing a scene that would be embedded on my memory for always. It would change everything. Ruin everything. Break everything.
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#11. Maybe soon you'll remember your favourites," I say quietly.
He shrugs.
"Or, I'll just make new favourites. Starting with you.
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#12. I see you getting things you don't deserve, living it up. It fucking sucks. I feel resentful because I deserve it more than you do. I could be a better you,
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#13. 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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#14. Life was a game. It was fun when you were an active player.
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#15. I feel emotion rush me - the intimacy, the awkwardness. I want to revolt against it, but I don't. It takes an awful toll on a person to fight down everything they're feeling.
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#16. That's the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised
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#17. Oh what do you know about love ? You've never cheated to have it.
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#19. 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.
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#20. I feel so pouty. I am just a muggle. A beige bitch muggle.
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#21. but it took a little Hootie and three beers to throw me some courage.
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#22. My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds.
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#23. Also, gasping is for damsels, and I'm a gangster.
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#24. Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.
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#25. That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.
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#26. We're drunk," she informs me, "and drunk people have crazy,sporadic thoughts."
"Very true," I agree. "Sometimes when I'm drunk, I think that loving you is sane.
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#27. The best kind of love is the love that isn't supposed to happen.
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#28. Wanting someone to notice you all the while praying no one does.
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#29. You are worth fighting for. I haven't given up yet. - Caleb Drake
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#30. I've always liked that name. She looks like an Estella." A catch in his voice. She looks like a bald, old man to me, but I nod. I am incapable of saying no to my husband, so it looks like the kid just got screwed.
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#31. Of course I want to, but I would look like a bad person if I didn't object at all.
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#32. I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you've done is ... You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.
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#33. We were both on the search for something true at the same time. Sometimes a person's truth is another person's love.
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#34. I love you
Delete
If you leave him, I'll leave her
Delete
Can we talk?
Delete
Peter Pan
Delete
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#36. The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.
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#37. Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.
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#38. Today we are here, and tomorrow we are gone, amounted to a handful of memories. It's freaking depressing.
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#39. What's the difference?" I asked him. "Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?"
"One is a choice, and one is not.
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#40. I thought you loved your husband." She blows air through her nose.
The action reminds me of an agitated horse. Her eyes rove from my shoes and land in disgust on my face. "I love yours too.
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#41. Leah: 'I thought you loved your husband.'
Olivia: 'I love yours too.
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#42. One day, I tell myself, the sting will subside and I'll be able to look at a fucking orange and not think of her.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe life is about living with the hauntings.
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#44. You don't see a lot of shit, Helena. You have a blind soul.
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#45. That's what writers do - the good ones anyway - we watched and we learned the faux pas of human nature. The delicate ways people came undone, the tiny little frays in the tapestry.
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#46. She watches my hand, riveted. I keep my lips in a straight line, but I want to grin at her obvious hand fetish. She's had one since we were in college.
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#47. I suck thoughtfully on the word "temporary". It could be my time with him is as temporary as hair dye, or an adrenaline rush. I decide I'll take either one.
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#48. Timing is everything when you're about to tell someone you dreamed him into your heart.
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#49. Love is faithful, love is kind, love is patient. Love is not - I wasn't thinking.
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#50. People rely on you. You can't just go down a different path and not warn anyone.
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#51. Under my bed, my shoebox of shame, and when I felt anxious or lost I would pull it out and touch all of my socks. All loners. All waiting to be reunited with their twin. I eventually outgrew the shoebox ... and by that I mean there were too many socks.
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#52. Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.
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#53. Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we'll have a sleepover and I'll tell you everything; but, as far as I'm concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.
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#54. Are you going to be making a point any time soon, or are you holding up the game to brag about your detective skills?
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#55. 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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#56. Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head.
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#57. Leah, go be with your husband," I say. "Before he realizes that he's still in love with me.
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#58. This is a fast love culture, where people
fall in and out of something so sacred you wonder if it has the same meaning it did a hundred years ago.
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#59. Humans weren't made to carry someone else's weight. We can barely lift our own."
"Maybe lifting someone else's weight makes yours a little more bearable
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#60. Am I supposed to say I'm sorry for what happened with Leah?"
...
"I wouldn't believe you if you did."
She smiles; it starts in her eyes and spreads slowly to her lips.
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#61. I find a job; I go back to being me. I don't remember my dreams anymore.
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#62. Addiction," I say simply. "It can span an entire lifetime if untreated."
"What's the treatment?"
"I don't really care."
"Me neither," she says.
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#64. I miss you. No, not just miss you, my heart aches every day because you're not there.
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#65. I was afraid of him. He was outplaying me, plucking all of my weapons from my fingers and making me feel like a toothless tiger.
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#67. People said, find your tribe. But, who was my tribe, and where were they?
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#68. Leah has red hair, but Olivia has a red personality. And as far as I'm concerned, red belongs to the love of my life.
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#69. Every time you want to remember what love feels like, you look for me.
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#70. I didn't want to hurt myself anymore because it hurt you.
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#71. Can I be your favorite girl?"
"You already are, Duchess.
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#72. You need to remember what it is that someone so desperately wanted you to forget. - Janice Delacroix
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#73. "That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.
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#74. Isaac: "It hurts me when you cry."
Senna: "I'm crying, but I don't feel anything,"
Isaac: "Yes, I know. That's what hurts me the most.
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#75. It's not often you get something for free in this life.
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#76. When they're together, it's like putting a hurricane and a tornado in the same room - you can feel the tension. I didn't believe in the cliche of soul mates until I saw them together.
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#77. I knew he never loved me like he loved her, but I wanted him anyway. I knew his love for me was conditional, but I wanted him anyway. I knew I was second choice, but I wanted him anyway.
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#78. Life is all about allowing people choices to be who they want. But the majority of people choose to be worthless.
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#80. That was the absolute worst thing about love; no matter how hard you tried, you could never forget the person who had your heart.
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#81. My heart clenches. I still love this boy. The realization scares me. I thought I was over it. I thought I could handle something like this; an impromptu run in.
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#82. You are worth loving. They just don't have any love to give. Forgive them, Margo.
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#84. The first time I saw her - my God - it was like I'd never seen another woman in all my life. It was the way she walked that caught my eye. She moved like water: fluid, determined. Everything else blended together in a blur and all I saw was her. The only solid in all that color.
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#85. He's a filler," Cammie says with more conviction than a suicide bomber.
"What does that mean?" I am studying the menu, contemplating an almond croissant.
"You know - stuff something into your heart quickly to stop it from cracking open ... from
bleeding out ...
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#86. A woman should never have to fight so hard to be with a man. He should just want her.
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#87. Guard your heart, so it doesn't get broken like mine, my mother used to say as often as twice a week.
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#88. How do you know, and I mean really know, when you're in love with someone?"
...
"It all feels like a dream," he says.
"A dream," I repeat. Ain't he right.
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#89. It's just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved.
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#90. Did you have me checked out?"
"Background check in three different countries." ...
"Find anything you didn't like?"
I shrug. "You married my first love, I already didn't like you.
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#91. The entire holiday was a joke; Jesus had to share it with Santa. The only thing worse was that Jesus had to share Easter with a bunny. That was just creepy.
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#92. But perhaps art isn't supposed to make you feel good, but just to make you feel. Does it cure the numb? I don't know.
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#93. Fuck love, fuck Florida, Fuck Kit Isley and his prettier-than-me girlfriend.
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#94. The minute I started freely loving Nick he left me.
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#95. When I'm with you, every emotion I can possibly feel comes spilling out. I drown in them. I want to run to you, and I want to run away.
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#96. 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.
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#97. I should have known someone like Caleb Drake stands over what he owns, teeth bared, not allowing anyone to touch it.
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#98. I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.
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#100. I'm afraid." Olivia to Caleb
"Afraid of what?" Caleb.
"Of how vulnerable you make me." Olivia.
"I make you vulnerable because you love me. That's the price you pay for love, baby girl." Caleb.
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