Believe Me Quotes

“i would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her, and if that's not enough for you, you can go to hell.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“i worry, sometimes, that my love for her will expand beyond the limitations of my body, that it will one day kill me with its heft.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

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

“This one’s mine.” That wipes the smile off my face. “That’s right, buddy.” Kenji is grinning now. “We’re going to be neighbors.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“When she's here, right here, it's so much easier to breathe. She's real when she's in my arms”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Believe me," I whisper. "I do.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I'm going to marry you today. And then I'm going to make love to you until you can't remember your name.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“When she's here, right here, it's so much easier to breath. She's real when she's in my arms”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“And I feel as if I’ve stepped into a strange, alternate reality, into a world where I didn’t think I’d ever belong. I could never have anticipated that somehow, somewhere along this tumultuous path— I’d acquired friends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“To the world, she is formidable.
To me? She is the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“If Ella were a house, she would be a grand home, one with many rooms and doors, all of which were easily unlocked, flung open. If I were a house, I would be haunted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Idiots are highly flammable love, let them all burn in hell”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I’m the only one allowed to call her Ella now. It’s just for us. A tether to our shared history, a nod to our past, to the love I’ve always felt for her, no matter her name.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Sometimes I am so desperate for quiet that I think I might commit murder for a moment of silence. Instead, I shut down incrementally as I'm able.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I want you to know that I know that and that I see you...I want to give you peace. I want to give you a home. With me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“My body is not unlike the moon, cratered so thoroughly by brutality it’s hard to imagine it untouched by violence.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I'd acquired friends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“We’ve been growing toward each other from the opposite sides of the same path since the beginning, haven’t we?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“You and I— Aaron, people like us think good things will disappear because that’s how it’s always been. Good things have never lasted in our lives; happiness has never lasted. And somehow we can only expect what we’ve experienced....“But do you know what I’ve realized?” she says. “I’ve realized that we have the power to break these cycles. We can choose happiness for ourselves and for each other, and if we do it often enough, it’ll become our new normal,displacing the past. Happiness will stop feeling strange if we see it every day.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“¨Happiness will stop feeling strange if we see it every day¨”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“¨There´s no one in the whole world like you," she says, and I can practically feel her heart beating between us. ¨I´m so grateful for you.¨
The words cause me an acute pain, a kind of pleasure that make it hard to breathe. ¨I am nothing,¨ I say to her. ¨If I manage to be anything, it is only because of you¨”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“If I were a house, I would be haunted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I didnʼt understand then that home is not always a place. Sometimes, itʼs a person.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“She's built her own family.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Huh,” says Winston quietly. “I didn’t even know his face could do that.” “Yeah,” Kenji says. “It’s super weird the first time you see it.” “I can’t look away. I’m trying to look away and I can’t. It’s like if a baby was born with a full set of teeth.” “Yes! Exactly. It’s exactly like that!” “But nice, too.” “Yeah.” Kenji sighs. “Nice, too.” “Hey, did you know he had dimples? I didn’t know he had dimples.” “C’mon, man, that’s old news—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“She is above it. Above us all. A spark of light separated from the sun.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I keep thinking the world will realize, any second now, how completely unworthy I am. I keep waiting for something horrible to happen, something to reset the scales and return me to hell, where I belong, and then all of this will just disappear.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“A strange sort of resignation rises up above them all, crowning a familiar pain, a familiar fear: that joy, like dew, evaporates from my life the moment I begin to trust the sun.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Great, well, that’s what we like to hear.” Kenji slaps me on the back, and I grit my teeth to keep from killing him.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me