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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“We all do don’t we? We are consumed with our own mortality. Some people eat right and exercise to preserve their lives, others drink and do drugs daring fate to take theirs, and then there are the floaters—the ones who try to ignore their mortality altogether because they’re afraid of it.”
“Which are you?”
He set down his knife and looked at me.
“I’ve been all three. And now I’m undecided.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you’d surrender it willingly.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“The truth is for the mind,” he says. “Lies are for the heart. So let’s just keep lying.”
I kiss the man I lie to. He kisses me with truth. I am set free”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Being stuck on love was a real bitch to cure. Like cancer, I think. Just when you think you’re over it, it comes back.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Acceptance. Embrace the suck.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare without your chains. I wonder if we ever get out of here, will we feel the loss?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Humans weren’t made to carry someone else’s weight. We can barely lift our own.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Maybe the chances that you’ll find each and every one of your soulmates is slim. But sometimes you’re lucky enough to stumble across one. And you feel a tug. And it’s not so much a choice to love them through their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you," I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.
Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his elbows on either side of my head.
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Love sticks, and it stays and it braves the bullshit.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You need simplicity to create complexity”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“If there was a God,” I said, “I’d say with confidence that he hates me. Because my life is the sum of bad things. The more people you let in, the more bad you let in.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Why are you here?” “Because you are.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Fear, light footed, dances around me. She whispers seductively in my ear. We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I found my piece. She wasn't what I was expecting. If you formed a woman's soul out of black graphite, bathed it in blood, and then rolled it around in the softest petals, you still wouldn't have touched on the complication that was my match.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“It’s slow poison; you make them believe it’s real, and it keeps them coming back for more.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Isaac was a stranger and he had seen more of my wounds than anyone else. Not because I chose him like I did Nick. He was just always there. That's what scared me. It was one thing inviting someone into your life, choosing to put your head on the train tracks and wait for imminent death, but this - this I had no control over.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I’ve had enough honey summers in life to know that people leave you when winter comes.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I’m sorry, Senna.”
I tremble. He’s sorry? Him? “For what?”
There is a million year pause.
“I couldn’t save you this time.”
I cry into his chest. Not because he couldn’t. Because he wanted to”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?” “One is a choice, and one is not.” I’d never thought of love as a choice. Rather, it seemed like the un-choice. But if you stayed with someone who was self-destructing and chose to keep loving, I suppose it could be a choice. I waited for him to go on. To explain how I fit in. “There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye,” he said. “Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are these invisible strings.” As if to make his point, his finger traced a black ribbon that ran through my horse’s mane. “Maybe the chances that you’ll find each and every one of your soulmates is slim. But sometimes you’re lucky enough to stumble across one. And you feel a tug. And it’s not so much a choice to love them through their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they’ve lived through.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“It’s a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Mantras sounded better in Latin. Repeat any phrase in the educated fancy-pants language most of the ancient philosophers used, you sounded like a goddamn genius. Repeat the same phrase in English, you sounded like a loon.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“I like my scars,” I say. “I earned them. Now, get out.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein