Quotes About Tarryn

#1. Thanks," I say, stepping into the room.
Do brothers thank each other?
Probably not.
I should have said something along the lines of, "Took you long enough, asshole."
Hoover, Colleen; Fisher, Tarryn (2015-01-07). Never Never (p. 75). Hoover Ink. Kindle Edition.

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#2. Her pain was so jagged. You couldn't touch her without it slicing through you too. I wanted to fold myself around her and absorb the rest of the blows life would deliver.

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#3. 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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#4. Most remarkable thing was that I was feeling.

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#5. Who wants to hide from the truth? 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. #TRUTH

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#6. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.

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#7. We make love every single day - no matter what. She is the only woman I've seen that gets more beautiful with age. She is the only woman I see.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Either way, you wrote the book and now you're complaining about the reviews I'm giving it," I quipped.
"Fair enough." He held up his hands, "I'm going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?"
"Only if every other girl on campus hasn't.

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#10. Maybe our souls touched underneath that tree. Maybe I decided to love her. Maybe love wasn't our choice. But when I looked at that woman, I saw myself differently.

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#11. I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo

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#12. 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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#13. You're my hiding place. I go to you when I'm messed up.

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#14. 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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#15. Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do.

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#16. If I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life. That I'd be the one to slay dragons for that kiss.

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#17. 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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#18. He's a filler. You know - stuff something into your heart quickly to stop it from cracking open.

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#19. She will be your destruction. She's not healthy."
"Then let her destroy me.

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#20. I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.

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#21. I'll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back!

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#22. Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself

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#23. Trying to walk away from something you love is like trying to drown yourself. You want to, but it's unnatural to not crave air.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Lies, it sounds demented to want a woman's lies. But, Olivia loves you with her lies. She lies about how she's feeling, how she's hurting, how she wants you when she tells you she doesn't. She lies to protect you and herself.

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#27. I have a disease called can't keep your fucking mouth shut.

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#28. You have to voice your thoughts so you can know you're not the only one who's fucked up.

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#29. What you wrap around your soul determines your outcome.

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#30. Love was whatever you decided it was, and if you'd had a narrow window to peek through, you were really fucked. But

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#31. Leah" Olivia says quietly, "if you point at me again I'm going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now turn around and smile, your daughter is waking up.

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#32. You don't look half as crazy as I thought you'd look ... Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs

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#33. I hate being sugar-lipped, especially by a bleating goat in pinstripes.

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#34. It didn't take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet.

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#35. 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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#36. Will you marry me, Olivia? You are the only woman I know how to love. The only woman I want to love. He doesn't lower himself to his knee and he doesn't need to. I am rocking on the edge of an emotional meltdown as is

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#37. All he's concerned about is showing me what I don't know, not calling attention to that fact that I don't know it.

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#38. Olivia?"
"Yeah?"
"If I make this shot, will you go out with me?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I will.

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#39. Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

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#40. One thing to know about me: I dig. If I can't find it - I dig deeper, harder. I dig until I find it. The only thing I couldn't dig into was my own mind. I didn't want to see it.

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#41. 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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#42. 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.

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#43. And, as I get to the airport, I realize that I'm a runner. Life gets hot and I pack my things and leave. It's new, but so is being an adult. I'm learning about myself. But, hey! I did what I came to do. So I'm an accomplished runner. Greer

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#44. I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.

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#45. Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

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#46. A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?

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#47. I'm mangled," I said. "On the inside and the outside.

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#48. ...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.

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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Painful truth is ineffable. It swings you around a couple of times until your dizzy, and then punches you hard in the stomach. You don't want to believe it, but it wouldn't hurt so badly if on some level you didn't know it was true.

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#52. My mother hasn't been speaking to me. She wanted me to forgive Neil, which was fine. There was room in my heart for forgiveness; there wasn't room in my life for someone who constantly needed it.

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#53. 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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#54. Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

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#55. You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life - just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

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#56. What type of world was this where the people who you thought loved you the most were the betrayers?

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#57. Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah.

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. Do you speak Parseltongue?" I ask. "What?" His face screws up.

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#61. That's why you never smile. You'd be a better man if you drank coffee.

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#62. I take pictures because I want to remember this place and all the things it made me feel. What does it feel like? I ask myself. Like cold air in your lungs after too much warm air.

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#63. You are going to destroy me, you know that?' I knew.

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#64. She walked like a woman who knew she had the world staring at her breasts.

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#65. 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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#66. Leah wouldn't tolerate facial hair. She said it chaffed her face. When she used the word "chaffed" I wanted to divorce her. Or maybe I just always wanted to divorce her.

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#67. I don't feel anything. Not even fear. Can you tell me what to feel, Isaac?" His throat spasmed, then he licked his lips. "It's emotional Morphine," he said finally. "Just go with it." And that was it. That's all we said for that night.

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#68. I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are

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#69. You can go crazy just from realizing you're crazy.

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#70. His lips move against my hair. "I'm sorry, Senna."
I tremble. He's sorry? Him? "For what?" There is a million year pause.
"I couldn't save you this time."
I cry into his chest. Not because he couldn't. Because he wanted to.

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#71. You are the woman I know how to love. The only woman I want to love.

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#72. Leah: 'How do I get him to come home?'
Sam: 'Get a new personality and learn to shut the fuck up.

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#73. She burned hot enough to keep everyone away. It was a good trick, except I played with fire.

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#74. She doesn't know anything about Caleb. I am the one he fell in love with first. I am the one who hurt him most. Broken hearts, tears and regret tie me to him.

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#75. Life was a game. It was fun when you were an active player.

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#76. 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.

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#77. She needed the type of love that stayed no matter.

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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. Oh what do you know about love ? You've never cheated to have it.

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#81. I love you so much, and there are so many things that I didn't get to tell you. I was so scared of the way you loved me, Caleb.

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#82. 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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#83. Okay", I breathed. "Then what will it take?" I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up."
"Miss it."
I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about.

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#84. And it's important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness.

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#85. My heart is asleep. We

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#86. That's easy to say until the person you love is happy with someone else. Girls always choose men, and men always choose the wrong girls. It's an endless cycle.

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#87. 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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#88. I feel so pouty. I am just a muggle. A beige bitch muggle.

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#89. How come Justin Bieber never gets any better at being a thug?

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#90. You believe in a person's permanence because humans have a tendency to stick to you when life is good. I call them honey summers. I've had enough honey summers in life to know that people leave you when winter comes.

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#91. She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their soul, like her Caleb did.

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#92. She has the kind of love that can stain your soul, make you beg not to have one, just to escape the spell she's put you under. I've tried to break myself of her over and over, but it's pointless. I've got more of her in my veins than blood

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#93. I almost have no nails left by the time his bubble pops up, but that's cool because everyone has fingernails, and I like to be different.

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#94. Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.

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#95. She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose her. That's how deep I was in this. - Caleb Drake

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#96. Silas grins. I don't know myself well, but I can tell I have a lot of game.

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#97. I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.

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#98. but it took a little Hootie and three beers to throw me some courage.

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#99. Then stay with him. That's the right thing to do. But, I am the right thing for you.

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#100. We are gonna be okay. That's what happens when two people are meant. You just work it out until you are okay.

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