Good Half Gone Quotes

“She is afraid- fear's favorite sidecar is anger.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Even when they lie the patients are revealing something about their inner life.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Lying is what women do to get by—not even for anyone else, just themselves.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Sometimes it was better not to give words to your thoughts, it deprived them of oxygen.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“The novelty of being an adult is that you can pay for what you didn’t get as a child. I get high on therapy, the nurture drug.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“You miss the present in a chase for tomorrow. Your brain says, ‘Soon, soon, soon.’ Soon becomes an obsession...”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Lying is what women do to get by— not even for anyone else, just themselves.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Whoop, there it is. You can’t go anywhere in prison without bumping into Jesus.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“PEOPLE WHO LEFT you were easy to hate—easier to blame. They didn’t care to defend themselves, so you experienced your abandonment in silence. You tended the garden of bitterness in silence.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“It’s not my mother’s T-shirt, it’s my aunt’s...” he counters. My mouth goes dry. Kid, you have no idea.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“The most I can give Gran at this point is answers. It’s what I owe her after losing Piper. It’s the least I can give Cal after losing his mother.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“He was one of those guys who thought kids should speak nicely to all the adults who handled them. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.—and not the kind Aretha sang about, it was entitled.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“The novelty of being an adult is that you can pay for what you didn’t get as a child.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Shrinks are here to edit your emotions with adjectives in order to create a TV Guide synopsis of your issues.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“I know what he’s going to say next. Guilty people always say it. “Let me explain...”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“I feed Alice dinner, spooning corn into her mouth. She tells me she loves me for ten straight minutes, thanking me for the food. By the time her plate is empty, she’s flipped the switch. She calls me a cocksucker and tells me she hopes I die.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“PEOPLE WHO LEFT you were easy to hate—easier to blame. They didn’t care to defend themselves, so you experienced your abandonment in silence. You tended the garden of bitterness in silence. Eventually you started making your own assumptions about why they left.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“A mother never forgets...” Her words are bouncing around my brain. Neither does a sister.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“for three consecutive nights.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“I’ve spent four years of my life chasing this...this...idea that I could find the answers I need. I’d convinced myself I’ve been on the right track. I was wrong.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“But when Leo says those six words to me—“I know why you’re really here”—I cannot control my breathing.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“His paternity haunted me at random times—when I brushed his dark, wavy hair or tickled him and heard his raspy laugh—a laugh that wasn’t in our family. Would his father come back for him? Would my sister?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“My sister’s body has never been found. Seven years after she disappeared, my mother filed the paperwork to have her legally declared dead.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Audrain and Poley made it clear that they believed her to be a runaway, despite the fact I’d seen her taken.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“She’s my sister, man. Those guys you set her up with put her in a car and drove away. She’s missing.” “I didn’t”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Her murderer is Jude Fields, D hall resident, considered not competent to stand trial.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“Sisters weren’t supposed to sell each other out,”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“With D?” I’m trying not to freak out. The big D—the only D I am interested in.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“What I’ve learned is that people think there’s something wrong with you if you eat raisins for fun.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone

“I can’t deny it; I’m being triggered. Because on top of the stress this sudden turn of events has inflicted upon me, I can’t stop thinking about the last time this happened...those catastrophic days after my sister disappeared in that car. The depression associated with that time lingers on those memories like grime, no matter how hard I try to douse it. If I choose to remember, I am also choosing to hit refresh on my trauma and feel it all over again.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Good Half Gone