Tarryn Fisher quotes:

She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their soul, like her Caleb did.

Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model

How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?

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.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

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.

You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.

I didn't eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon.

I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine.

I've been all three. And now I'm undecided.

Maybe lifting someone else's weight makes yours a little more bearable

I once watched a natural dam break on television. I remember seeing a scenic picture of a river surrounded by trees. All of the sudden, the trees disappeared--sucked away by the collapse of the riverbank. A swell of angry water rushed around the corner wiping out everything in its path. It was sudden, and it was violent.I see the dam break in Caleb's eyes.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

Nick loved me enough to leave me alone. Isaac knew me better than I knew me. I said I wanted to be left alone, he knew better. I said I wanted white, he knew better. He brightened me. He enlightened me. Because Isaac was my soulmate. NotNick. Nick was just some great love. Isaac knew how to heal my soul."

How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?

"That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?

Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.

I fell in love underneath a tree.

I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.

I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.

One is a choice, and one is not.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye. Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are those invisible strings... Maybe the chances that you'll find each and every one of your soul mates 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 though their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.

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.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

When life kicks me, I kick it back.

Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

You couldn't get rid of the past. You couldn't ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

You must not let hatred destroy you. You will lose your soul.

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.