“You can move things with your mind?” I don’t even know where I found the words to speak.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My heart has just expired and my mind has gone to hell for the day.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Don't go," he says. "Your touch is the only thing keeping me from losing my mind.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff.” — 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
“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
“You know there's a different side of yourself you don't want to recognize, a side you don't want to see in the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Juliette!" His voice is tighter, higher, laced with anger and terror and denial and betrayal. Realization is a new piece in his… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It's a feather-light brush of his mouth against my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He looks away. And he smiles. Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and… — 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
“I didn't sleep at all last night, my heart and mind plagued and conflicted and I cant feel my limbs, I cant… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind and he’s looking at me like something has broken inside of him, like he’s woken… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my… — 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
“Sometimes I close my eyes and paint these walls a different color. I imagine I’m wearing warm socks and sitting by a… — 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
“Hate that Warner is probably right, that profanity is probably a failure of the mind, that only idiots need to rely on… — 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
