“Sometimes I think this whole movement is led by a bunch of idiots.” — Tahereh Mafi Adam-kent Copy Share Image
“You know, you have a really strange way of telling me you’re attracted to me.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I wonder if these two men are the only ones who followed us inside. The” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack.” — Tahereh Mafi Destroy-me Copy Share Image
“... I'm starting to think that this situation is the exact antonym of excellent.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out." He… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct flavor of panic lodged somewhere underneath my tongue and I'm fighting to remember where it came from.” — Tahereh Mafi Anxiety Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the… — Tahereh Mafi Books Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything. — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner-anderson Copy Share Image
“Besides, it’d be a shame to lose such a pretty face.” I try to snap my neck away from him but the… — 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
“On the bleakst days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave… — Tahereh Mafi Onward and upward Copy Share Image
“This is about me and what I want. This is about me finally understanding where I want to be in ten years.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But I'm also strong enough to break through just about anything," I tell them, "and without even injuring myself. Concrete. Brick. Glass-"… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You're a coward," he whispers. "You want to be with me and it terrifies you. And you're ashamed," he says. "Ashamed you… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My head is spinning, thoughts knocking into one another, but I swallow back the tears. I clench my fists and try not… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship Copy Share Image
“These are my soldiers. Standing single-file line in their assembly uniforms. Black shirts, black pants, black boots. No guns. Left fist pressed… — Tahereh Mafi Black boots Copy Share Image
“Look at me, is what I wanted to say to you. Talk to me every once in a while. Find me a… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Adam leans into my ear. I feel the soft whispers of his breath just before he begins to speak. "You guys are… — 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 Break free Copy Share Image
“Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we grow,… — Tahereh Mafi Good words Copy Share Image
“Why are you being nice to me?" The suprise on his face suprises me even more. "Because I care about you." he… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We can really be together," he says to me, undeterred by my silence. He pulls me close, too close. I'm frozen in… — 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 Break free Copy Share Image
“I pull him closer, grab a fistful of his jacket and kiss him as hard as I can, my fingers already attempting… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He spent the next ten minutes giving a speech about the great day that is the day of their Surrender, and I… — Tahereh Mafi Communication Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship Copy Share Image
“I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want to laugh and cry and scream and run and I can't choose which to do first.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. I am a whisper… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
