In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“ Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him. I want you to make a list of all your favorite… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Slowly, Aaron looks up at me. His face is blank even as he says, "April twenty-fourth." "April twenty-fourth," I say, smiling. "That's… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“There are three things you should know about me, love." He steps forward. "The first," he says, "is that I hate my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Do you know,” he says, closing the cover of the journal only to lay his hand on top of it. Protecting it.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I have never claimed to live by any set of principles," Warner says to me. "I've never claimed to be right, or… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“What difference does it make?" he says. "People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation." "So you don't mind,"… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“He's too much. Everything about him is too much. His emotions, his actions, his anger, his aggression. His love.” — Tahereh Mafi 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
