Atheists Who Kneel and Pray Quotes

“She threw barbs, they were well aimed and they made me laugh. If I were a different man I’d have a bruised ego. I took her jabs and molded them to me. She was something I knew existed but had never met: the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow. Terrible analogies, I know. Yara”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Well, there’s your problem then,” I said, sighing. “When you try to prove your art you’re going to fail every time.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Be careful, David, I wanted to say. He was trying to see into me and that was never a good idea.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I want to be the peace in his life, not the conflict”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“How often do we lie to ourselves and say we don’t care about something when we do?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Love is not part of something else. It’s the only thing.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“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

“When you’re a bartender you can listen to everyone’s dirt without having to be personally involved.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

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

“I was in the middle of an existential crisis and he was making me his person. How could he afford to be that honest? I was cheap. I fell for it because most of us just really want to be wanted.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Seriously, Yara. I just want to be with you all the time. I am committed. I want to share more than the occasional dinner date and Sunday stroll through the park with you. I want to have a fucking Christmas tree and Easter ham with you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Beauty was deceiving in the same way credit cards were. It felt like it was free, but there was high interest with little return.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Gin sort of made me crazy, but crazy was better than boring, and I was feeling wild around the edges.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Let the heart breaking commence.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“We fight because we have things to fight about, it has nothing to do with the wine.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I started to feel the withdrawals right then and there. I’d replaced wanderlust with a human. That was a terrible mistake.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I fell for it because most of us just really want to be wanted”
― 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 giveaway, 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

“When I left, I had just been one of his heartbreaks, not his first. The first was powerful; it changed you. My own had been so devastating, altering the way I looked at men and love. And it wasn’t something that just wore off with time, returning you to your previous state of belief. Once you lost your faith, it was gone.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Enough with this guy, enough with all guys. You could order a dildo right to your mailbox. Men needed to learn how dire that situation was for them. “My”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I was not a face. I was tired of being called pretty. I was tired of people seeing my potential. I could be whoever I wanted to be, and for now, that was a bartender.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“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.” “What”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“You know, the first time I saw you in that bar it was as if someone plugged me into an electrical socket. Everything in my head lit up. I could have written ten songs, answered the age-long question about the meaning of love, and asked you to marry me on the spot.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Groveling was a rite of passage. It’s where you got to look so pathetic no one would want you anyway, but you were sad enough to try.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“If you’re going to murder me, don’t fuck with my face,” I said. “I want an open coffin at my funeral.” “No deal,” he said. “I want your dimples as my trophy.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“I was a passive aggressive coward. That sort of thing clung to your flesh like a smell, rot turned inside out. People could sense it on you; it caused them to be distrustful. It was hard to make friends when you had the smell, hard to keep them when you did make them. You held back from them and they held back from you, an even trade of nothingness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Did she love me? I'd never know because I'd never ask. That was the thing about pride, it shortsighted our hearts.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“When you’ve been hurt and you’re trying to be okay. You can’t let people know they have power over you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Her parties are always the best. She gets the top shelf liquor and plays only eighties music, which is fine by me. Dancing drunk to the eighties is life. But, more than that, she makes a point of inviting handsome men as an incentive for her girlfriends to attend. I’d be fine with just the expensive booze, but I suppose the scenery is a nice plus.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray

“Because if they’re right about their belief system, there is an ultimate judge anyway, isn’t there? We don’t need human judges.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray