“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Leah: 'I thought you loved your husband.'
Olivia: 'I love yours too.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Leah: 'How do I get him to come home?'
Sam: 'Get a new personality and learn to shut the fuck up.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“You die in love more than you live in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“That was the absolute worst thing about love; no matter how hard you tried, you could never forget the person who had your heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“A woman should never have to fight so hard to be with a man. He should just want her.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Hate is suck a prodigious feeling. It´s hot and oppressive like fire. It starts by burning through your God-given reason until there is nothing left of it but a mound of ash. It moves on to your humanity next, hot tongues flicking across the few remaining threads of innocence until they melt into each other and morph into something ugly. Then, in the rubble of what you were, hate plants a seed of bitterness. The seed grows to a vine chokes what it touches.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Caleb is a pretty nice guy."..."Why would he marry a girl like you?”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“She's not the enemy. She's just a dirty fighter.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Scars should stay where fate put them.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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, quote from Dirty Red
“Maybe the guy loves a good bitch - but you're treading a thin line between attractively bitchy and psycho.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Now that I've been thoroughly mind f--ked, I need a cigarette..”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Olivia married sexy Ghandi. No wonder she loves her husband.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“This was perfect. I was about a ten on the poison scale. If he needed venom, I could inject it directly into his neck.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“You don’t look half as crazy as I thought you’d look … Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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.
He is mine right now, but I am never enough for him. I can feel it — see it in the way he looks at me. His eyes are always probing, searching for something. I don’t know what he’s looking for. I wish I did. I cannot compete against a baby — my baby.
I am who I am.
My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“I didn’t choose her,” his voice breaks. “Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“The cashier – a bubble popping juvenile delinquent – asks me, “Will that be all?” I look at the bags of diapers that are now bagged in my cart and then at the empty belt. He is staring at me with his watery marijuana eyes, waiting for my answer.
“Um, no, I’d like all this invisible shit too.” I wave a hand at the conveyer and he is actually dumb enough to look.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“It didn’t take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“I just thought you needed one. You use that weird penny, and it keeps falling out____" His eyes had immediatly snapped to my face,
"Where is it? You didn't throw it away, did you?" I'd blinked at him, confused. "No, it's in your office." I couldn't hide the hurt from my voice. His eyes had softened, and he'd come around the table to kiss my cheek. "Thank you, Leah. It was a good idea-really. I needed something better to use to remind me of my place." "Your place?" "In the book." He smiled.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“Do I look like a commitment sort of girl to you?”
“You look like trouble,” he grinned. “When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead.”
I frowned. “There are only two reasons she’d say something like that.” Caleb raised his eyebrows. “And they are?”
“Your father either slept with one, or she is one.”
I buzzed under his crooked smile. It extended all the way to his eyes this time.
“I like you,” he said.
“That’s swell, Boy Scout. Real swell.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“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. But,this was too much.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
“That's why you got married - to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul.”
― Tarryn Fisher, quote from Dirty Red
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“And trust dies from ifs and buts”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Dying to Know You
“somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief.
Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.”
― John Eldredge, quote from Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
“Why do you want to have a drink with me?”
“Because I like you. Because you’re fun. Because I want to get to know you better. Because I want you to see for yourself I’m not the kind of guy you think I am.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked
“Incidentally, I do not agree with you when you speak of Indian independence having become a foregone conclusion. Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist. Certain steps might be taken to help bring it into existence, others can be taken that will hinder it doing so. But independence alone is not the idea I pursue, nor the idea which the party I belong to tries to pursue, no doubt making many errors and misjudgements in the process. The idea, you know, isn’t simply to get rid of the British. It is to create a nation capable of getting rid of them and capable simultaneously of taking its place in the world as a nation, and we know that every internal division of our interests hinders the creation of such a nation. That is why we go on insisting that the Congress is an All India Congress. It is an All India Congress first, because you cannot detach from it the idea that it is right that it should be. Only second is it a political party, although one day that is what it must become. Meanwhile, Governor-ji, we try to do the job that your Government has always found it beneficial to leave undone, the job of unifying India, of making all Indians feel that they are, above all else, Indians. You think perhaps we do this to put up a strong front against the British. Partly only you would be right. Principally we do it for the sake of India when you are gone. And we are working mostly in the dark with only a small glimmer of light ahead, because we have never had that kind of India, we do not know what kind of India that will be. This is why I say we are looking for a country. I can look for it better in prison, I’m afraid, than from a seat on your Excellency’s executive council.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Day of the Scorpion
“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Comedy of Errors
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