Shatter Me Complete Collection Quotes

“Can't look at you."

"Too pretty.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“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. They”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“if I considered other people's mediocre standards a sufficient metric by which to measure my own accomplishments, I'd never have amounted to anything. - Aaron Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“I am so horribly attracted to him.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I’m exhausting him. I’m making him sick and I’m weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he’s using his gift to control what I might do—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Is it because I intimidate you, Kent? Am I making you nervous?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?” “What?” He looks mortally offended. “Do I look like the kind of guy who’s never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Because you’re a dumbass,” he says again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Besides, it’d be a shame to lose such a pretty face.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. 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 Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“I’ve always had to make myself submissive, subservient, twisted into a pleading, passive mop just to make everyone else feel safe and comfortable. My existence has become a fight to prove I’m harmless, that I’m not a threat, that I’m capable of living among other human beings without hurting them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“I imagine someone’s given me a book to read, a story to take me away from the torture of my own mind. I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“You say you love me,” he says. “And I know I love you.” He looks up, meets my eyes. “So why the hell can’t we be together?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Don’t go,” he whispers, eyes on my notebook again. “Please,” he says. “Sit with me. Stay with me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“I’m good at everything,” he points out. “Humble, too.” “And really good-looking.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“I love you,” I whisper. “So much more than you will ever know.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“Adam.” I try to laugh and my lips trip on a stifled sob. “I’d recognize your eyes anywhere in the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Starter Pack: Books 1-3 and Novellas 1 & 2: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me

“You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin. You doubt you doubt you doubt.
do I
don't I
should I
why won't I”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“czuję tylko dmuchawce, które spełniają życzenia w moich płucach”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“jego twarz jest lasem emocji”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“obejmuje palcami jego wyobrażenie w swojej dłoni i zasypiam”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“moje serce zamienia się w parę skrzydeł trzepoczących w przełyku”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“spędzałam życie wsunięta między kartki książek”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“rzeczywistość uderza mnie po twarzy”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“każdy centymetr mojego ciała oblewa się rumieńcem”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“stałam się szeptem, którego nigdy nie było”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“chciałabym napełnić usta deszczem, napakować śniegu do kieszeni, chciałabym obrysować palcem żyłki w liściu, który spadł z drzewa i poczuć na nosie smagnięcia wiatru”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“obiecuję historię z milionem szczęśliwych przymiotników”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“zaciskam powieki, chciałabym móc je zaszyć”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection

“zamykam świat. na klucz. przekręcam klucz do oporu.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Complete Collection