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“People can think whatever they like....I don't desire their validation.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."

I still.

"I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong."

"I'm sorry-"

"Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not."

He laughs, once; his eyebrows lifting in surprise. "No," he says. "I'm afraid I'm just the regular kind of murderer.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“You know, you have a really strange way of telling me you’re attracted to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You are so confident," he says to me. "You're stubborn and resilient. So brave. So strong. So inhumanly beautiful. You could conquer the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“If I hear any of you talk," Winston says. "I will personally send Brendan over to kick you in the face."
"I am not going to kick anyone in the face."
"Kick yourself in the face, Brendan."
"I don't even know why we're friends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“We are synonyms but not the same.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy 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

“My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won’t move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Moving forward is the only way to survive.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me