“I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.” — Tahereh Mafi Food Copy Share Image
“... and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.” — Tahereh Mafi Death Copy Share Image
“I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.” — Tahereh Mafi Destroy-me Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.” — Tahereh Mafi Kiss Copy Share Image
“You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner.” — Tahereh Mafi Castle Copy Share Image
“I need air. I need a new brain. I need to jump out a window and catch a ride with a dragon… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But one day, she swore, she'd breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.” — Tahereh Mafi Heart Copy Share Image
“And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope… — Tahereh Mafi Change Copy Share Image
“Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark” — Tahereh Mafi Dark Copy Share Image
“It's okay," he whispers. "You'll be okay." Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don't tell… — Tahereh Mafi Truth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me; I wanted her… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I'm so afraid to speak. So afraid to move my lips. I'm so scared that if I move even an inch, my… — Tahereh Mafi Fear Copy Share Image
“Oh, certainly, sir. Would you like me to accompany you?” “That won’t be necessary, Lieutenant, but thank you for the offer.” “I—s-sir,”… — tahereh mafi Copy Share Image
“So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?" "What?" "All of this," Kenji says, waving a hand… — Tahereh Mafi Funny Copy Share Image
“You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never… — Tahereh Mafi Lying Copy Share Image
“I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most… — Tahereh Mafi Life Copy Share Image
“But being around so much love has managed to thaw my frozen parts into something human. I feel human. Like maybe I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“What if he just bombs everyone again?" Ian asks, breaking the silence. "Just like he did with Omega Point?" "He won't," Warner… — Tahereh Mafi Pep talk Copy Share Image
“You have no idea," he says to me, "what it means to truly suffer. Sometimes I think you live in some fantasy… — Tahereh Mafi Adam-kent Copy Share Image
“And your girl,” he says, cocking his head at me. “Your Juliette?” I flinch at the sound of her name. My pulse… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I know the sky falls down every day. The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and reds and yellows and… — tahereh mafi Copy Share Image
“In the pain, I imagine bliss. My thoughts are like wind, rushing, curling into the depths of myself, expelling, dispelling darkness. I… — Tahereh Mafi Bliss Copy Share Image
“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to… — Tahereh Mafi Books Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to kill a man if someone else deems him unfit to live. What I really want to say is who… — Tahereh Mafi Killing Copy Share Image
“You’re a coward,” he whispers. “You want to be with me and it terrifies you. And you’re ashamed,” he says. “Ashamed you… — Tahereh Mafi Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.” — Tahereh Mafi Emotions Copy Share Image
“Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age.” — Tahereh Mafi Language Copy Share Image
“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.” — Tahereh Mafi Books Copy Share Image
