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“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.

Because this.

This is everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me