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“I am, in the end, what you made me.”
― Cassandra Clare

“You look happy," he said to Clary. He swiveled his gaze to Jace. "And a good thing for you that she does."
Jace raised an eyebrow. "Is this the part where you tell me that if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No," said Simon, "If you hurt Clary, she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons."
Jace looked pleased by the thought.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

“He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and pushed the stele back across the table at him. Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. "Clary-" "She said she doesn't want it," said Simon. "Ha-ha." "Ha-ha?" Jace looked incredulous. "THAT'S your comeback?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Are you kidding?” I stop in the middle of the kitchen. Spin around. My face is pulled together in disbelief. “You’ve spoken to me maybe once in the two weeks I’ve been here. I hardly even notice you anymore.”

“Okay, hold up,” he says, turning to block my path. “We both know there’s no way you haven’t noticed all of this” — he gestures to himself — “so if you’re trying to play games with me, I should let you know up front that it’s not going to work.”

“What?” I frown. “What are you talking abou—”

“You can’t play hard to get, kid.” He raises an eyebrow. “I can’t even touch you. Takes ‘hard to get’ to a whole new level, if you know what I mean.”

“Oh my God,” I mouth, eyes closed, shaking my head. “You are insane.”

He falls to his knees. “Insane for your sweet, sweet love!”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“He won’t stop staring.
“What?” I ask.
“How much do you weigh?”
“Wow. Is that how you talk to every girl you meet? That explains so much.”
“I’m about one hundred seventy-five pounds,” he says. “Of muscle.”
I stare at him. “Would you like an award?”
“Well, well, well,” he says, cocking his head, the barest hint of a smile flickering across his face. “Look who’s the smart-ass now.”
“I think you’re rubbing off on me,” I say.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“It's just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It's a feather-light brush of his mouth against my skin in a place I can't quite see. It's my mind speaking in a thousand different languages I don't understand.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“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, Unravel Me

“So, what—you just walk right past me? Don’t even say hello?” He clutches the socks to his chest. “I’m crushed. I saved us a table and everything.”

I glance at him. Keep walking.

He catches up. “I’m serious. Do you have any idea how awkward it is to wave at someone and have them ignore you? And then you’re just looking around like a jackass, trying to be all, ‘No, really, I swear, I know that girl’ and no one believes y—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

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

“I hear Warner laugh.
I see him smile.
It's the kind of smile that transforms him into someone else entirely, the kind of smile that puts stars in his eyes and a dazzle on his lips and I realize I've never seen him like this before. I've never seen his teeth--so straight, so white, nothing less than perfect. A flawless, flawless exterior for a boy with a black, black heart. It's hard to believe there's blood on the hands of the person I'm staring at. He looks soft and vulnerable--so human. His eyes are squinting from all his grinning and his cheeks are pink form the cold.
He has dimples.
He's easily the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
And I wish I'd never seen it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“He looks away.
And he smiles.
Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on.
I don't know why my heart is losing its mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“He's standing right in front of me and I miss him like I haven't seen him in years.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“i'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. sometimes it just won't let go.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“You should know— you, have to know, that I have never wanted anything like I've wanted you. Nothing. You have no idea, what you do to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Then what's happening right now? Because something is happening right now and it doesn't feel okay," he says, his voice catching.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I'm so close to tears I'm afraid I might scream.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I've never been more confused about people, about who they seem to be and who they really are.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I love it when you say my name,” he says. “I don’t even know why.”
“Warner isn’t your name,” I point out. “Your name is Aaron.”
His smile is wide, so wide. “God, I love that.”
"Your name?”
“Only when you say it.”
“Aaron? Or Warner?”
His eyes close. He tilts his head back against the wall. Dimples.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“How can you be ashamed of an attempt to be better?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me