{"author":"Tarryn Fisher","author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher","total_quotes":31,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["bitchy","humorous"],"id":4591,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["contrast","happiness","hurting","moving-on"],"id":12436,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"Tell me a truth, Senna.'I don't know how,' I breath.'Then tell me a lie.'I don't love you,' I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his elbows on either side of my head.'The truth is for the mind,' he says. 'Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["drama","mud-vein","romance","slice-of-life","tarryn-fisher"],"id":20393,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["brave","change","love"],"id":24455,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["connection","destroy","human","love","tarryn-fisher"],"id":32671,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["attraction","strange"],"id":48535,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up face is happy ... Relieved. I called that one: Sallie Mae Can Suck It.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["funny","selfies"],"id":70177,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”“One is a choice, and one is not.” “There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye,” he said. “Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are these invisible strings.” As if to make his point, his finger traced a black ribbon that ran through my horse’s mane. “Maybe the chances that you’ll find each and every one of your soulmates is slim. But sometimes you’re lucky enough to stumble across one. And you feel a tug. And it’s not so much a choice to love them through their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["truth-of-life"],"id":120989,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["caleb","dirty-red","leah","love","love-me-with-lies","olivia"],"id":141533,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"You know that's not true. We have something, Helena. In another life, it would have been a beautiful something.'That hurts. God, does it. I've seen that life. He doesn't even know what he's talking about. In his mind, I'm just some possibility that could have been, but in my mind, he's the only possibility. I step close to him, close enough to see the stubble on his cheeks. I reach up to touch it, and it scrapes against the tender side of my hand. Kit closes his eyes. 'There's a house uptown on Washington ; we live there together in that life,' I say softly. 'Everything is green, green, green in our backyard. We have two children, a boy and a girl. She looks like you,' I say. 'But she acts like me.' I carees his cheek because I know it's the last time I'm going to get to do it. Kit's eyes are open and storming. I run my teeth across my bottom lip before I continue. 'In the summer, we make love outside, against the big wooden table that still holds our dinner dishes. And we talk about all the places we want to make love.' I lick the tears from my lip where they are pooling. Running in a straight line down my cheeks, a leaky faucet. 'And we're so happy, Kit. It's like a dream every day.' I reach up on my tiptoes and kiss him softly on the lips, letting him taste my tears. He's staring at me so hard I want to crack. 'But, it's just a dream, isn't it?","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["angsty-love","dreams"],"id":158740,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}