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“If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“We all hold a monster inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed.”
― Mary Lindsey, Haven

“But I don’t believe that the future gives us signs. I think that we look back and read the past with the present in our eyes.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“... all isn't lost. We lose things, but sometimes they come back. Life doesn't always happen in the order you want.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Love of the things that make you happy is steady too--books, words, music, art--these are lights that reappear in a broken universe.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“We are the books we read and the things we love...Our ghosts hide in the things we leave behind.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“You’re dangerous,â€� he says.
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“Because you make me believe in the impossible”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“If no words come, you can always give him the finger.”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'.”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.

I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in love with her? I think Adam's in love with her. Kenji's not in love with her, though. I already asked him."
Warner blinks at him.
"Well?" James asks.
"Well what?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"What?" James blushes. "No. She's like a million years older than me."
"Would anyone else like to take over this conversation?" Warner asks, looking around the group.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The man is moody as hell.â€�

“I am not moody—â¶Ä�

“Yeah, bro.â€� Kenji puts his utensils down. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.â€� ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.â€� ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.â€� When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me nakedâ€�”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e

I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me