“Kenji clears his throat. "Hey--guys? Your loin passion is grossing out the little ones.” — Tahereh Mafi Kenji-kishimoto Copy Share Image
“You're my bird," I tell him. "You're my bird and you're going to help me fly away.” — Tahereh Mafi Fly away Copy Share Image
“She felt most comfortable in nature, where things weren’t required to look like the other in order to live together peacefully.” — Tahereh Mafi Comfortable 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… — Tahereh Mafi Want 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 Language Copy Share Image
“me. His clothes were worse than mine, his lunch nonexistent. I never saw him eat. One” — Tahereh Mafi Lunch Copy Share Image
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time. — Tahereh Mafi Eye Copy Share Image
“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Exhale Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she understood that it is a very hard thing, to be afraid of things, and that it takes up so much… — Tahereh Mafi Mother Copy Share Image
“Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it… — Tahereh Mafi Hard to forget 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 Ignite-me Copy Share Image
“I know exactly what my future looks like and I'm okay with it. I'm happy to live in solitude. I'm not afraid… — Tahereh Mafi Future Copy Share Image
“If I hear any of you talk," Winston says. "I will personally send Brendan over to kick you in the face." "I… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship Copy Share Image
“You're just scared. You're afraid of what you're unfamiliar with. You're too worried about disappointing people. You stifle your own potential because… — Tahereh Mafi Afraid Copy Share Image
“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Books Copy Share Image
“...I kept thinking about how Id spent my entire life being a coward, and how it got me nowhere. And I knew… — Tahereh Mafi Entire life Copy Share Image
“Juliette," he whispers,and I realize just how close he is. I'm not sure why I haven't evaporated into nothingness. "It's been me… — Tahereh Mafi Long time Copy Share Image
“For a moment I feel as though I exist outside of my body, as if I'm looking at myself from his perspective.… — Tahereh Mafi Fall apart 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 Good enough Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry,” she says, and she’s wringing her hands, looking away from me. “I’m so, so sorry.” I notice what she’s… — Tahereh Mafi Third time Copy Share Image
“A tired starving dog so thin and frail it looks like it could be knocked over by the wind. But it's staring… — Tahereh Mafi Cute 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 Fitness 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 Aaron-warner-anderson 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 Dark moments Copy Share Image
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird… — Tahereh Mafi Bigger Copy Share Image
“Aw, you trust me?" "As long as I have a clear shot." I tighten my hold on the gun in my hand.” — Tahereh Mafi Shoot Copy Share Image
“I want to dive into his being, experience him with all 5 senses, drown in the waves of wonder enveloping my existence.” — Tahereh Mafi Life 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 Emotion 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 Anger Copy Share Image
“If I considered other people's mediocre standards a sufficient metric by which to measure my own accomplishments, I'd have never amounted to… — Tahereh Mafi Accomplishments Copy Share Image
“He smiles a small smile. His lips twitch like he's trying not to laugh. His eyes soften as they study my own.… — Tahereh Mafi Smiles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Book Copy Share Image
“He’s stolen my bed my blanket my pillow. I have nothing but the floor. I will have nothing but the floor. I… — Tahereh Mafi Floor Copy Share Image
“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.” — Tahereh Mafi Language Copy Share Image
“My body is a carnivorous flower, a poisonous houseplant, a loaded gun with a million triggers and he's more than ready to… — Tahereh Mafi Flower Copy Share Image
“stared out at the cars and the parents dropping off their kids and the moments I’d never be a part of.” — Tahereh Mafi Parenting Copy Share Image
“How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.” — Tahereh Mafi Change Copy Share Image
“I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.” — Tahereh Mafi Crime Copy Share Image
“I'd appreciate if you'd grow the hell up and stop walking around like the world crapped on your only roll of toilet… — Tahereh Mafi Kenji Copy Share Image
“Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
