Calista Smith > Calista's Quotes

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Love doesn’t leave. It bears all things.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“People—our dads, our moms, our friends—they are so broken they don’t even know that most of what they do reflects that brokenness. They just hurt whoever is in their wake. They don’t sit and think about what their hurt is doing to us. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“Sadness is an emotion you can trust. It is stronger than all of the other emotions. It makes happiness look fickle and untrustworthy. It pervades, lasts longer, and replaces the good feelings with such an eloquent ease you don't even feel the shift until you are suddenly wrapped in its chains.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday