Liberty > Liberty's Quotes

“You think these recent events are everything. You think Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since childhood...…..The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions - Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.


- Delalieu”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I don’t think you’re crazy,” I say. “And I don’t think you’re a psychopath. I don’t think you’re a heartless murderer. I don’t care what anyone else says about you. I think you’re a good person.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“There is a strange kind of freedom in giving up.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“I grieve nothing, I take everything" - Aaron Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“It was obvious, every time he put them in the same room. They were like magnets.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships. I formed bonds with paper characters.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“Tangled is not a cartoon. Tangled is one of the greatest movies of all time. It's about fighting for freedom and true love.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I know you want it back,” he says, “but I’m afraid I’m going to have to
keep it forever.” He holds it up, shows it to me. Grins. And then puts it in
his pocket. The one place I’d never dare to reach.
“Why?” I can’t help but ask. “Why do you want it so much?”
He spends far too long just looking at me. Not answering my question.
And then he says
“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the
coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days
you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you
have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a
chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”
“I can’t believe you have that memorized,” I whisper.
He leans back again. Closes his eyes again. Says, “Nothing in this life
will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and
hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me Series 6-Book Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me, Restore Me, Defy Me, Imagine Me

“I don’t understand—why won’t you talk to me?
You sit in the corner all day and write in your book and look at everything but my face. You have so much to say to a piece of paper but I’m standing right here and you don’t even acknowledge me. Juliette, please—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Kenji-"“So the minute you opened your mouth you just shattered all his dreams, huh?”

Juliette- “I will push you off the roof.”

Kenji-“Yeah, I can definitely see why Adam wouldn’t like you.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet— me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. “You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I love you,” I whisper. “You could throw my entire world into upheaval, and I would still love you. You could keep secrets, run a revolution, frustrate the shit out of me, probably ruin me, and I would still love you. I can’t make it stop. I don’t want to. You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Will you forever be the prize I am aimlessly trying to win"
"Is that all I am to you? A trophy?"
"Oh, darling, a trophy implies that I won it, earned it, deserve it." He leans in farther, a certain reverence in his gaze. "But if i get to have you, it will be because you let me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I blame her for it. Blame her for cracking my carefully crafted mask, shattering it to pieces when she is around.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She’s confusing, captivating, and we’re completely wrong for each other in all the right ways.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important. Not until I looked into a pair of ocean-blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing. Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is. “Blue,” I say, my voice low.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one…”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Of all the foolish, horrific things he'd ever accomplished, falling in love with a woman he so completely didn't deserve made the top of the list.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain