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“You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

Excerpt From: Tarryn, Fisher. “Dirty Red (Love Me With Lies).” iBooks.
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― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“He was immaculately dressed, without trying. He dressed that way by nature - which meant that he had money - and I loved money. I recognized the royal sign of the Rolex, the fine thread of Armani, the easy way he looked at the world. I also recognized the way he said "thank you" when the bartender refilled his drink, and how when the couple next to him swore repeatedly, he flinched. his type was hardly ever single. I wondered what stupid bitch let him go. Whoever she was, I would wipe her from his memory in no time at all.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Caleb once told me that love was a desire and desire was an emptiness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“A woman shouldn’t have to fight that hard to be with a man. He should just want her…”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Hot damn. What does this woman have that I don’t? Why do men like Noah and my husband fall in love with her?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I'd rather be the bastard daughter of a prostitute than ever share your blood.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“She was like a disease that came along every few years, contaminating everyone in her path.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Can I be your favorite girl?”
“You already are, Duchess.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You belong with me. Do you believe me?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone...”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you’ve done is…You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Will you marry me, Olivia? You are the only woman I know how to love. The only woman I want to love.” He doesn’t lower himself to his knee and he doesn’t need to. I am rocking on the edge of an emotional meltdown as is”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we’ll have a sleepover and I’ll tell you everything; but, as far as I’m concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.” He laughs a full-bodied laugh and I hide my contented smile behind the rim of my coffee cup.
“Well, that doesn’t sound so bad for me then,” he teases.
“Oh? Why is that?”
“Well, because you’ve just given me permission to see you again and now I have a sleepover to look forward to.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I don’t care what you’ve done. Just tell me how you feel.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I knew what I was going to do, something that would hurt him more than he hurt me. That’s the way I fought, dirty. An eye for an eye.” – Olivia”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“What you're doing--it's the right thing. Going after what you love despite everything you've done, and I won't sugarcoat it, you've done some pretty lousy things, but you did it all because you love this single human being so much you couldn't help yourself. There is an honesty to that.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You will forever be loved first, nothing will change that.”
“But what does it matter if I can’t be with you?” I wail. “I can’t live without you.”
“But you have,” he smiles, though it is a sad smile. “You have and you will.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“So then, it’s fair to say that you were thinking about me all week?” Now it was my turn to look shaken. Damn. Just when I had him.
“No…and…. no, I will not go out with
you.” I leaned back in my chair and decided to look at the score board. Maybe, if I ignored him, he would leave. The Black Eyed Peas were playing loudly over the speakers. I tapped my foot to the rhythm.
“Why not?” He seemed agitated. I liked it.
“Because I am a llama and you are a bird and WE are not compatible.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I kiss him for all the times I never got to kiss him, and for the times he’s been kissing Leah instead of me. I kiss him because I ruined everything and I could have had this every day.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I decided that I needed to see my replacement for closure. It was crazy really, but we are all entitled to a little bit of stalking.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I don’t want to go (...) Maybe if you had already graduated, you could go with me. It would be a possibility. But, as long as you are here, that’s where I am going to be”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Leah, go be with your husband,” I say. “Before he realizes that he’s still in love with me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I’ll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back!”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I looked at him now, the memory clear in my mind and gone from his. What would it be like to forget your favorite color? —or the girl that smashed up your heart? Airport blue haunted me. It became a brand to me, a trademark of our broken relationship, and my failure to move on. Airport fucking blue.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I can't do this because I can't... I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this—this just becomes... another reminder of what I am not.”
― Jojo Moyes

“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You