

“Trying to walk away from something you love is like trying to drown yourself. “No matter how pretty you grow up to be” – Tarryn Fisher You don’t need anything from anyone unless it’s the kind of love that chooses you first, always” – Tarryn Fisher “You’re just raw, and yourself, and beautiful. If only to quench your thirst, revolt” – Tarryn Fisher But the point is to revolt when the season changes. A change of heart and mind to gain sanity. A move across the country to gain perspective. I’ve learned that revolution can be inward or outward. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another. It’s the battle of color, words, sound, and shape, and it rages for or against love” – Tarryn Fisher “Art is the war against what we do not choose to feel. “Nothing worth finding is actually easy to find” – Tarryn Fisher “That’s the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don’t ask for or want, they just rush you anyway” – Tarryn Fisher I don’t need any of that muggle shit” – Tarryn Fisher “You’re a dead language, you know that? No one is like you, and you are like no one” – Tarryn Fisher It’s just the reactions we control” – Tarryn Fisher People have less power than they think they do. And everything that touches our lives controls us. “We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. “I think it’s hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can’t control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards” – Tarryn Fisher And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised” – Tarryn Fisher You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. “That’s the worst thing about being young. Do you fight for yourself, or do you fight for the relationship? What can’t you live without? There’s your answer” – Tarryn Fisher You fight for them, fight to keep them, fight to love them. The constant fight to keep love relevant, while growing and changing as a human, is the battle. “If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re lying. “There is the only war in love,” he says. “The best kind of love is the love that isn’t supposed to happen” – Tarryn Fisher Yourself is there no matter where you go” – Tarryn Fisher There is no real choice in love” – Tarryn Fisher “You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to choose you. “Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it” – Tarryn Fisher When they’re folded up enough I can leave them in a corner of my mind somewhere, to be forgotten” – Tarryn Fisher

“I’m folding my emotions like a piece of paper – a tiny square, into a tiny square, into a tiny square. I don’t remember my dreams anymore” – Tarryn Fisher But they can’t see my heart” – Tarryn Fisher “And I know I’m wearing a slutty dress, and my hair is a mess, and people are looking at me. Just thinking about working things out makes me tired” – Tarryn Fisher Live barefoot and fucking fight” – Tarryn Fisher They have the texture of a tongue, and I briefly consider that he’s sending me a message” – Tarryn Fisher “I’ve never eaten scallops, but he tells me they’re his favorite. There was room in my heart for forgiveness there wasn’t room in my life for someone who constantly needed it” – Tarryn Fisher She wanted me to forgive Neil, which was fine. It’s a sad day in Helena Land” – Tarryn Fisher “I read about them online after Googling: What the fuck is wrong with me? The website was a dot-org so I know it is legit” – Tarryn Fisher

“After all, I am angry, and yelling – channeling my inner Professor McGonagal like a bad bitch” – Tarryn Fisher Girls always choose men, and men always choose the wrong girls. “That’s easy to say until the person you love is happy with someone else. I take it in and feel like I can breathe for the first time in my life” – Tarryn Fisher I point my straw at her back and whisper” – Tarryn Fisher “She gets up, and I see her march to the front of the plane where the flight attendant meets her. “Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity” – Tarryn Fisher There’s no going back after that” – Tarryn Fisher “You don’t start searching for truth until something goes terribly wrong and you realize that you need it.
