Robin > Robin's Quotes

“I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I’ve been with many women, and she is the only one who makes me want to be a better person … and a better person for her. I don’t even need to be good, I just need to be good for her.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“She might not be mine, but I’m hers.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Olivia?”
“Yeah?”
“If I make this shot, will you go out with me?”
“Yeah. Yeah, I will.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“You don’t give an inch. That’s why I like you, Olivia — no middle name — Kaspen. You make me work for every smile, every giggle…”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“When I’m with you, every emotion I can possibly feel comes spilling out. I drown in them. I want to run to you, and I want to run away.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“This is a fast love culture, where people
fall in and out of something so sacred you wonder if it has the same meaning it did a hundred years ago.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Am I supposed to say I’m sorry for what happened with Leah?”
…
“I wouldn’t believe you if you did.”
She smiles; it starts in her eyes and spreads slowly to her lips.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Leah wouldn’t tolerate facial hair. She said it chaffed her face. When she used the word “chaffed” I wanted to divorce her. Or maybe I just always wanted to divorce her.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“She says things that genuinely move me. She lets her soul slip through her lips, and it’s always raw and incredibly sad.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“You keep them fed, or they'll take you out. Like Gremlins.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Selfish, self-centered Caleb Drake loved a girl so much he could already feel himself changing to accommodate her needs. I fell. Hard. For the rest of this life and probably the next.
I wanted her — every last inch of her stubborn, combative, catty heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I knew she loved me, but I wanted to hear it. The more she rejected
me, the more aggressively I fought to tear down her walls. I pushed too far sometimes … like the camping trip. I tried to prove to her that she wasn’t as autonomous as she thought. I wanted to show her that it was okay to be vulnerable and to want me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“That was the exact moment my heart threaded with hers. It was as if someone reached down with a sewing needle and stitched my soul to hers.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I knew I was lying to myself by thinking I could fix her. But, it was too late. I didn’t know how to let go.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“You broke your own moral code. I figured if someone like you would fight for me, I might actually be worth something.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I finally felt ready to put my broken
love to rest. But, you couldn’t put something to rest when it kept coming back to haunt you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Why do you always try to downplay my feelings for you?”

“I don’t trust them,” she says after a minute. “You claim that you love me, but you’ve loved other women in between.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Peter Pan.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Steve shook his head. “Some people take more work than others. You fell in love with a really complicated woman. You can weigh how hard things can and will be for the two of you, but what you really need to consider is if you can live without her.” I was out the door a second later. No. No, I couldn’t live without her.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Peter Pan,” I whisper into her ear.

“I’m afraid.”

“Afraid of what?” I kiss the opposite corner. She’s not as stiff as she was a minute ago. I kiss her mouth full on and close my eyes at the feel of
her lips. God, I am so whipped by this woman.

“Of how vulnerable you make me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Addiction,” I say simply. “It can span an entire lifetime if untreated.”
“What’s the treatment?”
“I don’t really care.”
“Me neither,” she says.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“It was as if someone reached down with a sewing needle and stitched my soul to hers.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“You know,” I saw, leaning across the table and taking her hand. “I could have sex with a thousand women, and it wouldn’t feel like it did that night in the orange grove.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill give you that baby.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“But, I knew I didn’t believe in
divorce. You couldn’t make vows and just break them. If I married a woman, I was going to stay married. I wouldn’t treat marriage like a lease. Ever.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“The corner of her mouth dips in and she shakes her head. “People are so messed up. All of us. We just hurt each other.”
“Some of us a little more so, don’t you think?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“She lies about how she’s feeling, how she’s hurting, how she wants you when she tells you she doesn’t. She lies to protect you and herself.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Well, isn’t that beautiful. All the fucking inappropriate love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no set rules in life. You do what you have to do to survive. If that means running away from the love of your life to preserve your sanity, you do it. If it means breaking someone’s heart so yours doesn’t break; do it. Life is complicated — too much so for
there to be absolutes. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you’ll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief