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
“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
“It’s like that one time you woke up and tripped down a rabbit hole and a blond girl in a blue dress… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And every moment in the world drops dead just then, because they woke up and realized they'd never be as important as… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Damn,” Kenji says after a moment. “Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Everything has changed. Because one upon a time I was just a child. Today I'm still a child, but this time I've… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He's looking so deeply into my eyes that I'm surprised I haven't buckled under the intensity and I realize then, right in… — 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
“For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself to believe she’d seen a future for us; that she wanted to be with me and simply thought it… — 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
“Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest. "Sire, please, can you hear me-" "I've… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. “You destroy me.” I am falling to pieces in his… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I’ve become obsessed. I carry her notebook with me everywhere I go, spending all my free moments trying to decipher the words… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You’ve suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved,” he says, no longer smiling. “Maybe I understand you,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I'm the train. I'm the one careening out of control. Because sometime you see yourself- you see yourself the way you could… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Everything is on fire. My cheeks my hands the pit of my stomach and I'm drowing in waves of emotion and a… — 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
