F*ck Marriage Quotes

“No one has a right to your happiness. It’s a private thing and you have the right to defend it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“The thief of love was ego. How weak was love that it could not sustain insecurity? Wasn’t it supposed to do the opposite?”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Sometimes, Billie, God sends an ex back into your life to see if you’re still stupid.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Marriage as a whole is uncomfortable. Two people from two different worlds trying to stuff all of their emotional belongings into one joined life.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“our intentions represented our depravity, while our actual behavior showed who we chose to be.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“It’s emotionally lazy to know you’re hurting someone and try to forget the fact because it makes you uncomfortable. Marriage as a whole is uncomfortable. Two people from two different worlds trying to stuff all of their emotional belongings into one joined life.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Divorce isn’t supposed to happen, but it does, and no one really knows how to deal with it. It frees you of one thing while imprisoning you with a thousand others. Life isn’t even remotely fair.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“When you date as many women as I have, you learn that everyone has a construct they want to portray. Personalities become like outfits: carefully curated, a smokescreen for the brokenness inside. It’s hard to tell what’s underneath the layers everyone is wearing. Billie is the first woman I’ve met who comes at you naked. She admits when she’s wrong, isn’t afraid of telling you the terrible truth about what she’s done, and doesn’t have a secret agenda. She is what she is and that’s exactly what I fell in love with.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Men don’t cheat because they’re not in love, they cheat because they don’t feel loved.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“I’ve never been in love, not until her, and I never want to be again—it hurts. Love hurts in the way a toothache hurts: you can’t ignore it, and it’s always there throbbing and aching, reminding you ... of what? I think desperately. What is it reminding you of? That you’re human. That you have weakness. That your weakness is another person.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“It’s painful when you remember good things about the person who broke your heart. It’s better to remember the things you hated, if only to keep the anger stronger than the sadness. He”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Because you’re turning witchy. You need fresh air and Christmas cheer.” “Fuck that,” she says. “I need a drink.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“There’s a line Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Though she be but little, she is fierce.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“There are all kinds of reasons people get divorced: they grow apart, there is abuse, they were never in love in the first place, they want different things… But when two people get divorced because one of them let a third person into the marriage, the person who was left behind faces years of psychological warfare they launch against themselves. Your person didn’t love you enough. Do you know how devastating that is? To realize you weren’t loved enough.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“It’s become a cycle we’re unfortunately comfortable with. The longer you stay in an unhealthy relationship, the more druglike it becomes. You’re willing to deal with the side effects because they’re predictable. You can trust the bad in a way you can’t trust the unknown.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“No one has a right to your happiness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“The war for love is fought by saying: You’re the one I want, you’re the one I need, you’re the one I’ll fight to keep. Neither of us fought. When you’re cheated on, you build a house around yourself. You build it strong. The walls are made of Never Again. The bricks—all the things you did right, the mortar—your anger. Divorce makes you live in a tall house because you put more effort into your grieving than you ever put into your marriage. That’s what we do as humans, we grieve harder than we ever tried and we build a magnificent fortress of hurt and self-righteous indignation. In front of this fortress is a garden where you grow your shortcomings. It’s a magnificent garden because that’s where you put all of your effort now. A garden of well-tended self-abuse. You water the shit out of your garden and it grows and grows. I grew a variety of things in my garden: bitterness, self-hate, numbness, self-pity, resentment, and defeat. I tended that garden with such detail, trimming and nurturing my personal hell until I couldn’t find my way out. And let me tell you, it’s a full-time job to hate yourself that much.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“They want to be worshipped. They want a woman who thinks they’re the greatest, strongest, most virile.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“He taught me love, and then inevitably, he taught me loss.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“You only love the rain on your terms. Washington was too much; here is too little.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“What I felt for you was love. The poets, the philosophers—they say things about perfect love. How it heals, how it behaves, how it braves all things. But they’re idealizing it. Best-case scenario: love saves the day. But I was the worst-case scenario. Love is sometimes powerful enough to self-destruct. Because when an imperfect person wields the most powerful weapon in the universe, they’re bound to trip over their own feet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“you live in a tall house because you put more effort into your grieving than you ever put into your marriage. That’s what we do as humans, we grieve harder than we ever tried and we build a magnificent fortress of hurt and self-righteous indignation. In front of this fortress is a garden where you grow your shortcomings. It’s a magnificent garden because that’s where you put all of your effort now. A garden of well-tended self-abuse. You water the shit out of your garden and it grows and grows. I grew a variety of things in my garden: bitterness, self-hate, numbness, self-pity, resentment, and defeat. I tended that garden with such detail, trimming and nurturing my personal hell until I couldn’t find my way out. And let me tell you, it’s a full-time job to hate yourself that much.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“One can’t be hung up on the past when trying to move forward.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“I think that you’re more in love with Satcher than you’re willing to admit. And I think that marrying someone you compare to someone else is a very, very big mistake.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“trying to pretend the situation is different doesn’t change the situation, it just puts you in a slumber deep enough to never learn acceptance.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Love is sometimes powerful enough to self-destruct. Because when an imperfect person wields the most powerful weapon in the universe, they’re bound to trip over their own feet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Men were more loyal to football teams than they were to women. They never cheated on those.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“why men were given that internal switch and women were not. One little flick and they could turn their feelings on and off—so in control.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“when I caught sight of my reflection in the kettle my eyeliner had bled and my mascara was smudged. That’s what I got for buying the cheap stuff. I looked like a back-alley hooker.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage

“Love hurts in the way a toothache hurts: you can’t ignore it, and it’s always there throbbing and aching”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Marriage