“I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Your eyes are so deep. So calm. I want to know what you're thinking.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.” — 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
“I dare to hope Adam is trying to reach out to me. I’m crazy enough to consider the possibility.” — 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
“I turn to the glass wall keeping me from the other half of my heart. Press my head against the cool surface.… — 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
“I'm not falling for Warner," I say quietly. "Sure you aren't." "I'm not," I insist. "I'm just-- I don't know." I sigh.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I never even tried. Because I let the world teach me to hate myself. I was a coward who needed someone else… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Can you, like, see invisible people, too?" "No," Warner says to him, eyes focused in front of him. "I can feel your… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He and I would end up like water going nowhere. Water that never moves-- It's fine for a little while. You can… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Never forget,” I say, quietly now, “that if I wanted your job, I could have it. And never forget that the man… — 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
“It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!" Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But he grins, so brilliantly, not even paying attention. “I love it when you say my name,” he says. “I don’t even… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“...and I know I'm about to die. I know it's over and it doesn't feel real, somehow, it feels like this is… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Maybe they see something in him, see something in his face, in his features. Maybe they see what I see from this… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“She searches me with those odd, blue-green eyes and I feel guilty so suddenly, without understanding why. But there’s something about the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Warner has collapsed in the corner. He's curled into himself, kness pulled up to his chest. arms wrapped around his legs, his… — 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
“I can well imagine the extent of his relationship with my father,' Warner says, shaking his head. 'And that he has managed… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I am going to MURDER YOU—” “No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up, it's… — 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 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
“I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
