“his body break into heaving sobs, his small face smeared into the dirt, his arms clutching at his bruised abdomen. I couldn’t… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I can’t help but be amazed at the power such small, unassuming animals wield over us; they so easily break down… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds. I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal… — Tahereh Mafi Time Copy Share Image
“... shit happens. We deal with it, and we find a way to survive. You're not the only one with the problems.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You don't have to look away," he says. He says it with a small smile the size of Jupiter.” — Tahereh Mafi Smile Copy Share Image
“He takes my hand. Intertwines our fingers. Offers me a smile that manages to kiss my heart.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep" "Go to hell." He works his jaw. Walks to the door. "I'm working… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I've never been more confused about people, about who they seem to be and who they really are.” — 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 Dystopian Copy Share Image
“Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the… — Tahereh Mafi Dark Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?" "What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never… — Tahereh Mafi Humor 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… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything… — Tahereh Mafi Kisses Copy Share Image
“Kenji: Did you really love him...? Juliette: I think so? I don't know. Is it possible to love someone and then stop… — Tahereh Mafi Love Copy Share Image
“You could love me, you know." He's smiling a strange sort of smile. "We would be unstoppable. We would change the world.… — Tahereh Mafi Change the world Copy Share Image
“My voice softens. 'How old are you ?' 'I'll be eleven next year.' I grin. 'So you're ten years old?' He crosses… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how to describe this feeling, this breathless languor. No one had ever looked at her the way he did,… — Tahereh Mafi Breathless Copy Share Image
“So you just kill people for power." "As do you." "How dare you-" He laughs, loud. "You're free to lie to yourself,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“When are you putting me down?" he counters, no longer amused. "I mean, I've got an excellent view of your ass from… — Tahereh Mafi Ignite-me Copy Share Image
“I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the… — Tahereh Mafi Beauty Copy Share Image
“Get your hand off of her before I bury a bullet in your head" Warner's eyes close very slowly. He steps away… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop." I still. "I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want you to live up to your potential!" "Let me go," I say quietly. I don't want to be your creature.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“She shuts the door behind her. She’s walking over to me. My heart is beating quickly now, and it doesn’t feel natural.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I take a deep breath and tiptoe to the window only to press my nose against the cool surface. Feel my breath… — Tahereh Mafi Deep breath Copy Share Image
“You don’t remember me. You don’t remember that we went to the same school for 7 years. You don’t” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I clung to something like hope, to a thread of maybes and possiblys and perhapses.” — Tahereh Mafi Hope Copy Share Image
“Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack.” — Tahereh Mafi Destroy-me Copy Share Image
“... I'm starting to think that this situation is the exact antonym of excellent.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion.” — Tahereh Mafi Arrogant Copy Share Image
“I had a goal. Step one has been accomplished. And now I will see it through to the end.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.” — Tahereh Mafi Language Copy Share Image
“I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out." He… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct flavor of panic lodged somewhere underneath my tongue and I'm fighting to remember where it came from.” — Tahereh Mafi Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship Copy Share Image
“I want to laugh and cry and scream and run and I can't choose which to do first.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the… — Tahereh Mafi Books Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything. — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner-anderson Copy Share Image
