“Everyone says I talk a lot." He shrugs. "But what am I supposed to do when I have so much to say?” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He’s wrong he’s so wrong he’s more wrong than an upside-down rainbow. But everything he said is right.” — Tahereh Mafi Rainbows Copy Share Image
“Don't worry," James says, still chuckling. "I won't touch you. Adam told me all about your magical powers." He rolls his eyes.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because all you ever said to me," he explains, "was that you didn't want to hurt anyone. You didn't want to murder… — 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 Juliette-ferrars Copy Share Image
“Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.” — Tahereh Mafi Acceptance Copy Share Image
I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. — Tahereh Mafi Child 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 Juliette-ferrars Copy Share Image
“Every vertebra, every knuckle, both kneecaps, both hips. I am a pile of bones on the floor and no one knows it… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog,… — Tahereh Mafi Love Copy Share Image
“Because the more I discover about him, the fewer excuses I have to push him away. He's unraveling before me, becoming something… — Tahereh Mafi Terrifying Copy Share Image
“Alice couldn’t explain why, exactly, but she knew now that things had changed between them. Oliver had become her friend in an… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship 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
“Water that never moves." I say to him. "Its fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll sustain… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she is. No idea… — Tahereh Mafi Destroy-me Copy Share Image
“We are synonyms but not the same. Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the… — Tahereh Mafi Friendship 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… — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner Copy Share Image
“I fold myself into a corner of this room and bury my head in my knees and rock back and forth and… — Tahereh Mafi Asylum Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying… — Tahereh Mafi Loneliness Copy Share Image
“She is a soft, deadly creature. Kind and timid and terrifying. She's completely out of control and has no idea what she's… — Tahereh Mafi Beautiful disaster Copy Share Image
“No,” I hear myself say. “You’re not supposed to be here.” She’s sitting on my bed. She’s leaning back on her elbows,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You've been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven't you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to… — Tahereh Mafi Entire life Copy Share Image
“You were so hurt,” he says, “that I’d asked you to wear a dress.” He looks at me then, eyes sparkling with… — Tahereh Mafi Clean clothes 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 Dark Copy Share Image
“It's okay," he whispers. "You'll be okay." Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don't tell… — Tahereh Mafi Truth Copy Share Image
Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope… — Tahereh Mafi Change Copy Share Image
“It's been me and you against the world forever," he says. "It's always been that way.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to… — Tahereh Mafi Unkindness Copy Share Image
“You can move things with your mind?” I don’t even know where I found the words to speak.” — Tahereh Mafi Mind Copy Share Image
“It’s strange to have to exert energy to move my lips to form words necessary to explain my actions.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You should know— you, have to know, that I have never wanted anything like I've wanted you. Nothing. You have no idea,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Do you deny these accusations, soldier?” Fletcher’s nostrils flare. His jaw tenses. His voice cracks when he speaks. “No, sir.” Warner” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was the universal… — Tahereh Mafi Color 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
“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
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird… — Tahereh Mafi 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 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 Copy Share Image
“He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
