I Can Be a Better You Quotes

“You have to voice your thoughts so you can know you’re not the only one who’s fucked up.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I can make you a part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are. I”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“People can smell kindness on you even when you act like an asshole to scare them away.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“People didn’t want to hear the truth. They had their ideas and any deviation made them uncomfortable.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I see you getting things you don’t deserve, living it up. It fucking sucks. I feel resentful because I deserve it more than you do. I could be a better you,”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“People said, find your tribe. But, who was my tribe, and where were they?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“That’s what writers do—the good ones anyway—we watched and we learned the faux pas of human nature. The delicate ways people came undone, the tiny little frays in the tapestry.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“People who noticed details aren't assholes; they were seeing you. Which actually took some effort, to look outside of yourself and see others. A rare thing nowadays.”
― Tarryn fisher , Bad Mommy

“Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I’m not a follower, but I’m not brave enough to be the leader either. I don’t see this as a flaw; it’s a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I was quiet about the things I saw, but I saw.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“because people are flawed and nothing is fair.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“A woman’s heart was an awful curse.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“He promised you a lot and he promised it to someone who needed it to be true. There was a disconnect in your relationship—I don’t know where it stems from or why, but he did know that for once in your life you needed to not be let down. He wasn’t selfless enough to do that.” Oh”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I was selfish that way, wanting people to bend and give me the love I needed, not necessarily the love they knew how to give.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“Happiness is tied to survival. We feel as if we are failing if we aren’t happy,”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I was looking for the flaws in others and that was unfair when I had so many myself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“What type of world was this where the people who you thought loved you the most were the betrayers?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“Life was a game. It was fun when you were an active player.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“I’d forgotten to take care of myself. That’s what happened when you were sad.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“There was a certain butt naked feeling when you told someone you were an artist. It was sort of like telling them you’d been to prison.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“Yeah, I guess I like that she doesn’t care. I’ve always wanted to not care.”
― Tarryn Fisher, I Can Be a Better You

“We were products of our earliest experiences, replicating the ways we were taught to love, and fuck, and interact with humanity. Some of us broke free of our pasts; some of us weren’t that clever.”
― Tarryn Fisher, I Can Be a Better You

“We were all copycats, weren’t we? We saw celebrities wearing high-waisted jeans and then we wore them. Our friends listened to music that we immediately downloaded and became obsessed with. We were a generation of see it, want it, take it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, I Can Be A Better You

“Your thoughts turned from a romantic comedy to a psychological suspense. A genre switch. What a joke. Wedged in-between all of the good memories were dark slivers: fights, text messages, dissonance. You remembered how lonely you’d been feeling, and the dark slivers became more pronounced. They pushed apart the good memories until they stood on their own.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“but it took a little Hootie and three beers to throw me some courage.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“Since when did it become easier to be crazy than cheated on, you know? It’s just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved. What”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy

“You could search for years and you still won’t be able to know who that woman is, because she doesn’t know herself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Bad Mommy