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“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away." And then he left.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I fell in love underneath a tree.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I love you too, Olivia. More than I could ever love another soul. There hasn't been a single hour in seven years that I haven't thought of you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I was waiting for you - for years. I didn't live. I just waited for you to come back.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I take my first step and then my second, and right before the door closes, I look once more over my shoulder. Caleb is still under the tree, he winks at me, and I smile.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I’m sorry, Olivia, for hurting you,” he said hoarsely and my heart heaved in my
chest. Why was his voice so gentle? Why wasn’t he screaming at me? I was the one
who did the hurting. It was me. My fault. My sin. My mess. “You will never see me again after today.” He paused and his next words struck me so deeply I would never recover from them. “I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you’ve done is…You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.” And then he left.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Can I be your favorite girl?”
“You already are, Duchess.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we'll have a sleepover and I'll tell you everything; but, as far as I'm concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Whether I'm standing behind you or facing you, the view's pretty nice.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You belong with me. Do you believe me?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Damn him. I could love. I had it all inside of me. If he knew so much about me, why couldn't he see that? If I didn't love him, how could it hurt so badly?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Redhead marrying, amnesia getting, bastard!”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you’ve done is…You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I cared more about knowing you than I did about winning another stupid game.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You will forever be loved first, nothing will change that.”
“But what does it matter if I can’t be with you?” I wail. “I can’t live without you.”
“But you have,” he smiles, though it is a sad smile. “You have and you will.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we’ll have a sleepover and I’ll tell you everything; but, as far as I’m concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.” He laughs a full-bodied laugh and I hide my contented smile behind the rim of my coffee cup.
“Well, that doesn’t sound so bad for me then,” he teases.
“Oh? Why is that?”
“Well, because you’ve just given me permission to see you again and now I have a sleepover to look forward to.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I’ll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back!”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I looked at him now, the memory clear in my mind and gone from his. What would it be like to forget your favorite color? —or the girl that smashed up your heart? Airport blue haunted me. It became a brand to me, a trademark of our broken relationship, and my failure to move on. Airport fucking blue.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I’m Olivia Kaspen, and if I love something I rip it from my life. Not intentionally… not unintentionally either.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Does he look at you, the way I look at him?”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Leah, go be with your husband,” I say. “Before he realizes that he’s still in love with me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I don’t want to go (...) Maybe if you had already graduated, you could go with me. It would be a possibility. But, as long as you are here, that’s where I am going to be”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I decided that I needed to see my replacement for closure. It was crazy really, but we are all entitled to a little bit of stalking.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You’re a good guy, Caleb Drake.”
“A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?” I flinched. Hopefully, that wasn’t true. I was about as rotten as a month old egg.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped.
“Fair enough.” He held up his hands, “I’m going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?”
“Only if every other girl on campus hasn’t.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Why do you never answer?”
“Because it’s a hard question.”
“It’s a yes or no, actually. You have a fifty-fifty chance of getting it right.”
If only it were that simple. Did I love him at this point? I loved him from the first point…the point where our two lives crossed the first time. I couldn’t tell him that though, I didn’t know how and every time I tried, the words would get stuck in my throat.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist