Tarryn Quotes & Sayings

His voice was throaty and seductive. I knew he could get girls - maybe even me - into bed, just by using that voice. — Tarryn Fisher

It's not often you get something for free in this life. — Tarryn Fisher

She's mine. She always has been, she always will be. — Tarryn Fisher

The day I met her under that tree, it was as if I breathed a spore of her into my lungs. We kept coming back to each other. The distance between our bodies grew wider over the years as we tried to live separately. But that spore took root and grew. And no matter the distance or circumstance, Olivia is something that grows inside of me. — Tarryn Fisher

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

K: Also, for being in my state- #Fuckyou. — Tarryn Fisher

nor do I tell her that in my mind the line between Harry Potter and real life is blurry, if not non-existent. — Tarryn Fisher

I would give anything to have that memory back
to see what it was like between us when we loved each other enough to believe it was forever. - Silas Nash — Tarryn Fisher

You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away. And then he left. — Tarryn Fisher

Where we're from is in us - in our marrow. You can put us anywhere else in the world, but we carry our origin with us everywhere we go. If he's right, I'll never fucking get away. — Tarryn Fisher

Nick was wrong about me. Having a mud vein didn't kill me; it saved me. My vein drew Isaac. He was the light and he followed me into the darkness. He became the darkness, then he carried my burdens so I wouldn't have to. — Tarryn Fisher

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it. — Tarryn Fisher

Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else. — Tarryn Fisher

Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault in themselves? — Tarryn Fisher

We were both on the search for something true at the same time. Sometimes a person's truth is another person's love. — Tarryn Fisher

She was like a disease that came along every few years, contaminating everyone in her path. — Tarryn Fisher

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 — Tarryn Fisher

I feel like you're always trying to sneak into my mind. You're like Peter Pan - always climbing in windows and causing trouble."
She scrunched up her nose. "Did you really just call med Peter Pan?"
"I've called you worse." I eased the car into traffic.
"A llama," she said. "I loved that. — Tarryn Fisher

I cannot hate the dream; the dream woke me up. — Tarryn Fisher

Who wants to survive without truth? — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

He makes you feel like you're the only person worth having a conversation with, and then he goes a year without having a conversation with you. The disappointment is vast. He will never build that model car with you, he will cancel dinner plans and birthday plans and vacation plans. He will choose work and someone else over you. He will break your charmed hopeful heart time and time again. — Tarryn Fisher

We are all sheep, who get jobs, and have babies, and diet, and try to carve something special out for ourselves using the broken hearts, and bored minds, and scathed souls life delivered to us. — Tarryn Fisher

Your girlfriend is a narcissistic bitch, and you're an indecisive coward. Congrats on creating a little human that's perfect. — Tarryn Fisher

I was quiet about the things I saw, but I saw. — Tarryn Fisher

There are cities that take your breath away by their sheer size; some by the beat of their rhythmic culture, but 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. My God, it's like I've been looking for this place all along. My — Tarryn Fisher

You're my hiding place. I go to you when I'm messed up. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher - Thief

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. — Tarryn Fisher

Depression is a deep, black wave - so powerful, building from a swell and rising ... rising — Tarryn Fisher

No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

When I am writing a book, I'll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don't know how to fix. When I wake up, I know. It's as if it were there all along and I just needed the right sleep to access the answer. — Tarryn Fisher

Well, isn't that beautiful. All the fucking inappropriate love. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

What's the difference?" I asked him. "Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?"
"One is a choice, and one is not. — Tarryn Fisher

I look away. I'm tired of liking him. I only have a day and a half worth of memories, but they're all filled with me not hating Silas. And now He's made it his personal mission to make me love him. — Tarryn Fisher

When i was a little boy i had a red bike, every night when I went to bed I begged God to give my bike wings so that in the morning, I could fly away. Every morning I'd crawl out of bed and run straight to the garage to see if he answered my prayers. I still have the bike. It's mire rusted than red now. But I still check. Everyday. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

You changed everything. I was so frightened of losing you that I did everything in my power to drive you away. I thought that if I didn't, eventually you would see that you were wasting your time with me and leave anyway. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

She is playing games with someone who knows how to play them better. — Tarryn Fisher

It didn't take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet. — Tarryn Fisher

Love doesn't leave. It bears all things. — Tarryn Fisher

You need to remember what it is that someone so desperately wanted you to forget. - Janice Delacroix — Tarryn Fisher

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change. — Tarryn Fisher

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

You're just raw, and yourself, and beautiful. You don't need anything from anyone, unless it's the kind of love that chooses you first, always. — Tarryn Fisher

I don't want to go ( ... ) Maybe if you had already graduated, you could go with me. It would be a possibility. But, as long as you are here, that's where I am going to be — Tarryn Fisher

You're strong enough to protect your heart and mine, and your heart from mine. I'll give you everything I have because from the day I met you, it's belonged to you.I kiss her then I roll on top of her. And that's it. Our hearts are married. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains. — Tarryn Fisher

Leah, go be with your husband," I say. "Before he realizes that he's still in love with me. — Tarryn Fisher

She walked like a woman who knew she had the world staring at her breasts. — Tarryn Fisher

Shunned by association. — Tarryn Fisher

I had a hand fetish. His hands were big, probably beneficial for that stupid sport he played. His were the kind of hands that made wedding rings look sexy - tan with vein lines that ran like snaking rivers to his wrist and disappeared under his sleeves. — Tarryn Fisher

Timing is everything when you're about to tell someone you dreamed him into your heart. — Tarryn Fisher

You're a good guy, Caleb Drake."
"A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?" I flinched. Hopefully, that wasn't true. I was about as rotten as a month old egg. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

Girls clamored for Caleb's attention like chimps on crack. He's got the banana that every girl wants, — Tarryn Fisher

And my personal favorite, your lips." He smiled as a pink flush crept up my neck. "Full and sensual, puckered, and always turned down at the corners. They kind of make me want to kiss them until they smile. — Tarryn Fisher

She might not be mine, but I'm hers. — Tarryn Fisher

You're like a pair of boots with six inch heels ... all attitude and sexiness, but you make people feel uncomfortable just looking at you. — Tarryn Fisher

Every time you want to remember what love feels like, you look for me. — Tarryn Fisher

Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. — Tarryn Fisher

This feels natural, Kit and I acting on something that was already there. My eyes roll back in my head as he slides inside of me. And then I wake up. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

Yeah, you got married, didn't you? But,
you only did it because you thought we were over - and we're not over. We'll never be over. If you think that little piece of metal on your finger can shield off your feelings for me, you're wrong. I wore one for five years and there wasn't a day that went by where I wasn't wishing it were you. — Tarryn Fisher

That's why writers write - to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard. — Tarryn Fisher

Today we are here, and tomorrow we are gone, amounted to a handful of memories. It's freaking depressing. — Tarryn Fisher

You know," I saw, leaning across the table and taking her hand. "I could have sex with a thousand women, and it wouldn't feel like it did that night in the orange grove. — Tarryn Fisher

I break our connection. — Tarryn Fisher

There is no such thing as a clean slate. I know that now. You just embrace your dirty slate and build over it. — Tarryn Fisher

Let me carry you out. I'll never let you touch the ground. I was made to carry you, Olivia. You're fucking heavy with all of your guilt and self-loathing. But, I can do it. Because I love you. — Tarryn Fisher

He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next. — Tarryn Fisher

One is a choice, and one is not. — Tarryn Fisher

It's never that I don't want to be with you. It's that you don't want to be with me. -Isaac — Tarryn Fisher

Le Tub is a Miami oceanside restaurant that uses old bath tubs and toilets as decoration. If you're really lucky, you get a table by the water where you can see the manatees as they swim by. Someone once told me that it was one of Oprah's favorite restaurants, but seriously, Oprah has a lot of favorite things--it all sounds like lies at this point. — Tarryn Fisher

I want to fight with you about stupid things and then hold you down in my bed and make it up to you. — Tarryn Fisher

You have cheese in your hair," Kit says. "Right there." He motions to the spot. I don't pull it out. Let the cheese have my hair. — Tarryn Fisher

You look like trouble. When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

something about me responds to something about you. — Tarryn Fisher

You need simplicity to create complexity — Tarryn Fisher

think that the right girl can wipe away the memories of the wrong girl. — Tarryn Fisher

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 — Tarryn Fisher

Does he look at you, the way I look at him? — Tarryn Fisher

Olivia was so beautifully broken. The hairline cracks in her personality were more pieces of art than flaws. I loved flawed art. — Tarryn Fisher

He runs his hand over his face, and suddenly the cocky joker is gone, and I can see all of his shadows. — Tarryn Fisher

I wasn't good at saying. I was good at writing. — Tarryn Fisher

When life kicks me, I kick it back. — Tarryn Fisher

I'm in emotional purgatory, the up and the down, the right and the wrong. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying not to ... touch him — Tarryn Fisher

I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her. — Tarryn Fisher

Do you love me, or the idea of me? — Tarryn Fisher

But, I knew I didn't believe in
divorce. You couldn't make vows and just break them. If I married a woman, I was going to stay married. I wouldn't treat marriage like a lease. Ever. — Tarryn Fisher

Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me — Tarryn Fisher

You shouldn't have to be forced to be strong on your own because no one will stand with you. Your dad failed you, Noah failed you. I will not fail you again. — Tarryn Fisher

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. — Tarryn Fisher

That's why you never smile. You'd be a better man if you drank coffee. — Tarryn Fisher