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“i worry, sometimes, that my love for her will expand beyond the limitations of my body, that it will one day kill me with its heft.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“But it’s my wedding day,�� she says. “And I have nothing to wear.�� “You’re right.�� I kiss the top of her head. “I’m going to kill him.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Juliette Ferrars, one of the most feared, most lauded heroes of our known world, is crying over a dog.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Forgive me. I know it all seems stupid now, but I don't want to take anything for granted anymore. Forgive me for hurting you. Forgive me for not trusting you. I took my pain out on you and I'm so sorry. I was selfish, and I hurt you, and I'm so sorry.

- Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“When she's here, right here, it's so much easier to breathe. She's real when she's in my arms”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“That you could love me at all seems like some kind of miracle."
She smiles, even as she shakes her head. "That's ridiculous," she says. "It's very, very easy to love you."

-Warner and Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Gone is the boy with the guns and the skeletons in his closet. These hands holding me have never held a weapon. These hands have never touched death. These hands are perfect and kind and tender.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

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

“You know —I feel everything when you touch me, love. I can feel your excitement. Your nervousness. Your pleasure. And I love it,' he says quietly. 'I love the way you respond to me. I love the way you want me. I feel it, when you lose yourself, the way you trust me when we're together. And I feel your love for me,' he whispers. 'I feel it in my bones.'
'I have loved you my entire life.' He looks up, looks at me with so much feeling it nearly breaks my heart.
'Ella,' he says, his voice rough with feeling. 'I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Right now all I want is this. I just want to be here. With you. Whatever comes next, we'll face it together.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I grieve nothing, I take everything" - Aaron Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I’ve fallen for her.
And I’ve fallen.
So hard.
I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I’ve felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I’ve known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I’ve seen things that cannot be unseen.
And yet I’ve known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.
Love is a heartless bastard.
I’m driving myself insane.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“When she's here, right here, it's so much easier to breath. She's real when she's in my arms”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. The kind that takes forever and no time at all. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,�� he says, “my heart is going to explode,�� and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.
Because this.
This is everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Ella,�� I say. “You’re going to be my wife.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“You want me,�� he says softly, his hands moving up my back, “and it’s killing you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“So much of it was like seeing myself on paper,�� he whispers. “Like reading all the things I never knew how to say.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“No one has ever apologized to me before. Not like this. I’ve had men fall to their knees before me, begging me to spare their lives—but I can’t remember a single time in my life when someone apologized to me for hurting my feelings. No one has ever cared about my feelings long enough to apologize for hurting them. In my experience, I’m usually the monster. I’m the one expected to make amends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I do not have friends,�� he says. “Why can’t you try?�� He shakes his head. “Why? Why not give it a chance—�� “Because I am afraid,�� he finally says, voice shaking, “that your friendship would be the end of me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Finding this,�� he says, his voice soft as he pats the cover of my notebook, “was so”—his eyebrows pull together—“it was so extraordinarily painful.�� He finally looks at me and he looks like a completely different person. Like he’s trying to solve a tremendously difficult equation. “It was like meeting a friend for the very first time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Аз съм същество, съставено от букви, персонаж, оживял в изречения, въображаемо създание, родено от художествена измислица.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Копнеех да повярвам във вълшебните приказки и щастливите завършеци... и отворените врати. Копнеех да се попреструвам на по-добър човек, но вместо това успях да надхвърля дори кошмарния облик, който околните ми бяха изградили.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“В най-мрачните дни трябва да потърсиш светло местенце, в най-студените дни трябва да потърсиш топло местенце, в най-злощастните дни трябва да гледаш напред и нагоре, а в най-печалните дни трябва да отвориш очи, да им позволиш да леят сълзи. После да ги оставиш да изсъхнат. Да им дадеш възможност да отмият болката, за да виждат ясно отново.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Не съм мечтала за красиви дрехи или приказни обувки, или скъпи неща. Не съм си мечтала да се облека в коприна от глава до пети. Мечтаех единствено да протегна ръка и да докосна друго човешко същество, не само с ръцете си, но и със сърцето си. Но виждах света в неотзивчивостта му, както и жестокото му, сурово порицание.. и студените му, презрителни очи. Виждах го навсякъде край себе си.
Имах толкова много време да се вслушвам.
Да наблюдавам.
Да изучавам хора, места и възможности. Трябваше единствено да отворя очи. Да отворя някоя книга - да видя как историите се пропиват от страница в страница. Да видя спомените, запечатани на хартия.
Прекарах живота си затворена между страниците на безброй книги.
Заради липсата на човешки взаимоотношения си създадох връзки с хартиени персонажи. Изживях любов и загуба чрез разказите, преплетени в историята; изживях юношеството си по аналогия. Светът ми представлява плетеница от думи, свързваща крайник с крайник, кости със сухожилия, мисли и представи. Аз съм същество, съставено от букви, персонаж, оживял в изречения, въображаемо създание, родено от художествена измислица.
Те искат да изтрият от лицето на земята всеки пунктуационен знак в живота ми, аз не мога да им го позволя..”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“…поняког�� умираме, понякога сме на път да избухнем, понякога сме на 2 метра под земята и търсим прозорче, когато някой полива с бензин косите ни и подпалва лицата ни. Усещам как костите ми лумват в огън.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“It’s simple logic: if we believe our choices are our own—if we do not know we are being bent into obeisance—we will not be tempted to revolt.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“I always wanted revenge against the rebels responsible for the destruction of my life and the upheaval of the world—even as I found the actions of my own regime to be worse than despicable. I aligned myself with what I believed to be the lesser of two evils, trusting that no government could be trusted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“You know what’ll fuck you up? Watching adults terrorize children over and over again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me