Atheists Who Kneel and Pray Quotes

“That’s good. You don’t forgive because they deserve it. Most of the time they don’t. You forgive to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“You young people treat love like it’s an accessory, not a matter of life and death. You’re amused by it, in love with the idea of it. You make all of your songs and books about it, but don’t know how to live it out. Love is not part of something else. It’s the only thing.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“There is no moving on when you're truly in love. You try and you keep trying, but that love is a stain on your life. it's just not that easy.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“It’s not true what they say, that you can only give your heart away once. That’s the philosophy of the young. The old know better, they know it’s not the heart that you give away, but the mind. Fuck…shit…the mind is a powerful thing. It controls the heart, but most people don’t know that.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Love was just a word until someone gave it a definition.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Come back to me. Come back. Come.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“If a man introduces his male friend to his extraordinary new girlfriend, his friend will think—I want a girl like that. If a woman introduces her new boyfriend to her female friend, the friend will not think—I want a man like that, but rather, I want that very man.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“It’s human nature to want to fix things. That was my first thought, actually, but you’re right. Someone should take you as you are, not have an agenda for how they want to change you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“You don’t have to be enough for me or anyone. I love you as you are. I don’t want you to ever feel pressured to be something for me. That takes the ease out of real love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Then I feel more desperate. People die. We are not permanent. We have to hurry if we want things.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes—both peaceful and angry. The way its mood changes every day. The way it washes some things away and drags some things to your feet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“If someone doesn’t want you, the only self-respecting thing to do is to let them go”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I waited for years for a sign that you loved me, and there it was. Go big or go home, right, English?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“My drug was wanderlust. I got high by starting over. We always had a drug. We could replace one with another, but humans were addicts.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“David used to tell me that not believing in God was a defense mechanism against human suffering. It’s easier to say nothing exists than to say something exists and He just lets us suffer.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“That’s what makes you a narcissist. Even in the middle of hurting other people you’re focused on yourself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to an artist this way. No one else would get it. “Do”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“You don’t forgive because they deserve it. Most of the time they don’t. You forgive to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.” “What”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“He made my truth light and funny without diminishing the importance of it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Relentless. There’s something about a relentless man. You couldn’t ignore them. If they asked long enough, eventually they wore you down. Women looked for that, persistent interest. An investor. We were, in ourselves, an entire universe. We felt too much, talked too much, wanted too much—the anti-simple.   “You”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“This boy/girl dance is exhausting. It feels the same each time: flirt, sex, date, disappoint, break up. I'm made of glass not steel.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“The most twisted thing about being an artist comes when you understand you’re creating for one specific person. The painful part is realizing who that person is, and the devastating part is knowing the compulsion will never go away.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“It’s time to stop waiting, isn’t it? To be ready. For life to start. I’m not even sure what I was waiting for.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“It was awful to be this person, so jammed up with bad experiences you couldn’t let anyone see your real face.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I think of the way he kissed me, pulled back, smiled a little, and then kissed me some more. I think of the way he was always feeling me up, no matter where we were. I think of the way he always knew what I was thinking and called me out on it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“My drug was wanderlust. I got high by starting over. We always had a drug. We could replace one with another, but humans were addicts.   “Yara…Yara…?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Just because you hurt my damn feelings doesn’t mean I want you to go,” he said. “My feelings are my problem, not yours.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“He was too much and I was too little.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Don’t look at me like that,” I said. “I’m not broken because I don’t want the same thing as everyone else. And, no, you’re not invited to fix me, or soften my heart, or make me want things I never knew I wanted.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Atheists who kneel and pray, the voice sings. Begging for just anything. Non-believers bitten down to the core. Pass them a word, give them a string. When you’re dying you cling. Yara, Yara, the god of disbelief. I worship between your legs. Pray to your fallacy, pray to your winter. You kill everything.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray