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“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

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I want to laugh and cry and scream and run and I can't choose which to do first.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist.
One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide.
One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear.
A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“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

“Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps.”
― 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

“Hello.
World.
You will forget me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“There are secrets everywhere.
There are answers nowhere.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You are not normal. You never have been, and you never will be. Embrace who you are.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgment, and its cold, resentful eyes.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I tried so hard to fix what I'd ruined. I tried every single day to be what they wanted. I tried all the time to be better but I never really knew how.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I'm an old creaky staircase when I wake up.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The strongest weapon a woman has at her disposal is that she is often underestimated,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I’m hot and cold, yes and no, right and wrong.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love