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“Look beyond yourself..”
― Michael Jackson

“You don’t have any control over anyone’s feelings.

You can’t make your parents feel proud of you.
You can’t make anyone like you.
You can’t make anyone love you.

You can make it easier for them, by sacrificing your time and energy, but you cannot MAKE THEM, you can only make it easier for them— and yet again, what have you gained? Nothing. You’re gambling. Putting trust coins into a slot machine hoping that love comes out.”
― M. Kirin

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”
― Rod Serling

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”
― M. Kirin

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”
― M. Kirin

“All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.”
― M. Kirin

“I didn't understand then that a home is not always a place. Sometimes, it's a person.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me