Robin > Robin's Quotes

“Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Maybe the guy loves a good bitch - but you're treading a thin line between attractively bitchy and psycho.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“It’s like he’s seeing the only thing that matters. I am sickly familiar with the way he looks at Olivia, because it is the way I look at him.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“This was perfect. I was about a ten on the poison scale. If he needed venom, I could inject it directly into his neck.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.
He is mine right now, but I am never enough for him. I can feel it — see it in the way he looks at me. His eyes are always probing, searching for something. I don’t know what he’s looking for. I wish I did. I cannot compete against a baby — my baby.
I am who I am.
My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“You look like trouble. When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“It didn’t take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I just thought you needed one. You use that weird penny, and it keeps falling out____" His eyes had immediatly snapped to my face,
"Where is it? You didn't throw it away, did you?" I'd blinked at him, confused. "No, it's in your office." I couldn't hide the hurt from my voice. His eyes had softened, and he'd come around the table to kiss my cheek. "Thank you, Leah. It was a good idea-really. I needed something better to use to remind me of my place." "Your place?" "In the book." He smiled.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Do I look like a commitment sort of girl to you?”
“You look like trouble,” he grinned. “When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to never trust a redhead.”
I frowned. “There are only two reasons she’d say something like that.” Caleb raised his eyebrows. “And they are?”
“Your father either slept with one, or she is one.”
I buzzed under his crooked smile. It extended all the way to his eyes this time.
“I like you,” he said.
“That’s swell, Boy Scout. Real swell.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“You don’t look half as crazy as I thought you’d look … Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I didn’t choose her,” his voice breaks. “Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you’re just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“That's why you got married - to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I knew he never loved me like he loved her, but I wanted him anyway. I knew his love for me was conditional, but I wanted him anyway. I knew I was second choice, but I wanted him anyway. But,this was too much.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“The cashier – a bubble popping juvenile delinquent – asks me, “Will that be all?” I look at the bags of diapers that are now bagged in my cart and then at the empty belt. He is staring at me with his watery marijuana eyes, waiting for my answer.
“Um, no, I’d like all this invisible shit too.” I wave a hand at the conveyer and he is actually dumb enough to look.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“You said you would never hurt me.”
His eyes are frigid. “That was before you fucked with my daughter.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Scars should stay where fate put them.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Do you love me, or the idea of me?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I once watched a natural dam break on television. I remember seeing a scenic picture of a river surrounded by trees. All of the sudden, the trees disappeared--sucked away by the collapse of the riverbank. A swell of angry water rushed around the corner wiping out everything in its path. It was sudden, and it was violent.
I see the dam break in Caleb's eyes.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Their story will never be over.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“One thing to know about me: I dig. If I can’t find it — I dig deeper, harder. I dig until I find it. The only thing I couldn’t dig into was my own mind. I didn’t want to see it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“He told me he loved me. He was supposed to protect me from hurt, not inflict it in the cruelest of ways. He betrayed me. I’m dying. I’m dead. Why am I still breathing? God, I don’t know how to make
the hurt stop.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself. He is mine right now, but I am never enough for him. I can feel it — see it in the way he looks at me.
His eyes are always probing, searching for something. I don’t know what he’s looking for. I wish I did.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I don’t intend on keeping her anywhere … Aside from my bed, she’s free to come and go as she pleases.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I'm not moving in with anyone until I marry them," he said.

I hadn't heard anyone say this since I was fifteen and my parents forced me to go to Bible camp. "Swell," I said. "And I'm not sleeping with anyone until I marry them."

Caleb turned his best 'I can have you whenever I want you' look on me, and I got so flustered I didn't know whether to kiss him or blush.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“The best thing about Caleb is not his perfect body, or his half smiles, or his even sexier voice... it's his mannerisms. The teasing, the way he runs his thumbnail across his bottom lip when he's thinking, the way he bites his tongue when he's turned on. The way he makes me look at him when I have an orgasm. He can undress you with one look, make you feel like you're standing naked in front of him.I know from experience, it's a pleasure to be naked in front of Caleb.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“A woman shouldn’t have to do that. She
should feel safe in her marriage. That’s why you got married — to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“They spark. When they’re together, it’s like putting a hurricane and a tornado in the same room – you can feel the tension. I didn’t believe in the cliche of soul mates until I saw them together.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“I knew he never loved me like he loved her, but I wanted him anyway. I knew his love for me was conditional, but I wanted him anyway. I knew I was second choice, but I wanted him anyway.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red