“I allowed myself to believe she’d seen a future for us; that she wanted to be with me and simply thought it… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Damn,” Kenji says after a moment. “Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“His eyes are a midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I remember you every day forever in every single broken moment of my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Look at me, is what I wanted to say to you. Talk to me every once in a while. Find me a… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My opinions,” I say to him, quietly this time, “should not so easily break your own. Stand by your convictions. Form clear… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You pretend that a piece of yourself doesn't exist. You live like that for a long time. For a long time, you're… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Stop. Stop time. Stop the world. Stop everything for the moment he crosses the room and pulls me into his arms and… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I bite back a shiver as the blood rushes up to blush my cheeks and for a moment, just for this moment,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I tried so hard to fix what I'd ruined. I tried every single day to be what they wanted. I tried all… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My legs feel full of sand and stapled together, my mind overflowing with grains of indecision, choices unmade and impatient as time… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I tried so hard to fix what I'd ruined. I tried every single day to be what they wanted. I tried all… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Everything is on fire. My cheeks my hands the pit of my stomach and I'm drowing in waves of emotion and a… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It’s like that one time you woke up and tripped down a rabbit hole and a blond girl in a blue dress… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We're running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. “You destroy me.” I am falling to pieces in his… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.” His fingers… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Just a moment. Just 1 second, just 1 more minute, just give me another hour or maybe the weekend to think it… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are." Warner is looking at me like he might be going… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes you see yourself—you see yourself the way you could be—the way you might be if things were different. And if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I'm the train. I'm the one careening out of control. Because sometime you see yourself- you see yourself the way you could… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And every moment in the world drops dead just then, because they woke up and realized they'd never be as important as… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We're drenched in water and beauty and the exhilaration of a moment I never knew was possible.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I’ll be back to shave your head while you’re sleeping.” Kenji looks genuinely terrified for the first time. “You wouldn’t.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“He's too much. Everything about him is too much. His emotions, his actions, his anger, his aggression. His love.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“I want you, I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“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.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“That’s when I understand. Of course she’s not okay. Of course she didn’t get any sleep last night. Last night she almost killed one… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
