I’ve never been in love, not until her, and I never want to be again – it hurts. Love hurts in the way a toothache hurts: you can’t ignore it, and it’s always there throbbing and aching, reminding you... of what? I think desperately. What is it reminding you of? That you’re human. That you have weakness. That your weakness is another person.

— Tarryn Fisher

Tarryn Fisher Quotes

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

— Tarryn Fisher

Nothing wrong with having different interests and loving each other the same.

— Tarryn Fisher

I was a passive aggressive coward. That sort of thing clung to your flesh like a smell, rot turned inside out. People could sense it on you; it caused them to be distrustful. It was hard to make friends when you had the smell, hard to keep them when you did make them. You held back from them and they held back from you, an even trade of nothingness.

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

We’re laughing because you’re all the same.

— Tarryn Fisher

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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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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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.

— Tarryn Fisher

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

— Tarryn Fisher

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.

— Tarryn Fisher

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.

— Tarryn Fisher

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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