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“I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to fly.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and red and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“My body is a carnivorous flower, a poisonous houseplant, a loaded gun with a million triggers and he's more than ready to fire.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Laughter comes from living.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Everything is on fire. My cheeks my hands the pit of my stomach and I'm drowing in waves of emotion and a storm of fresh rain and all I feel is the strenght of his silhouette against mine and I never ever ever ever want to forget this moment. I want to stamp him into my skin and save him forever”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The human imagination is often disastrous when left to its own devices.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“He’s wrong he’s so wrong he’s more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

But everything he said is right.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“We're here, and it's nighttime. So according to my calculations, we must not have done anything stupid.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The sky is raining bricks right into my skull.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“His body presses closer and I realize I'm paying attention to nothing but the dandelions blowing wishes in my lungs.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.
It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“My eyes break open. Two shattered windows filling my mouth with glass.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“God, Juliette, I'd follow you anywhere. You're the only good thing left in this world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“... shit happens. We deal with it, and we find a way to survive. You`re not the only one with the problems.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“This must be how I broke through the concrete in Warner's torture chamber. Which means I still have no idea how I broke through the concrete in Warner's torture chamber.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You’ve suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved,” he says, no longer smiling. “Maybe I understand you, Juliette. Maybe you should trust me. Maybe you should accept the fact that you’ve tried to be someone you’re not for so long and that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?” He looks at me and for a moment he seems almost human. For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my
throat.
“It’s time you stopped pretending,” he says, so softly.
“Juliette—” He takes my face in his gloved hands, so unexpectedly gentle.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Revenge
I think
Has never looked so sweet”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You've been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven't you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to believe it. You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You though if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer - you thought the world would change its mind about you. You blamed yourself for everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in love with her? I think Adam's in love with her. Kenji's not in love with her, though. I already asked him."
Warner blinks at him.
"Well?" James asks.
"Well what?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"What?" James blushes. "No. She's like a million years older than me."
"Would anyone else like to take over this conversation?" Warner asks, looking around the group.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I am going to MURDER YOU—”
“No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like to kill people, remember? You’re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Water that never moves." I say to him. "Its fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll sustain you. But if it sits too long it goes bad. It grows stale. It becomes toxic." I shake my head. "I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me