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“I'd acquired friends.”
― 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

“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

“She’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.” It felt like my heart was going to explode as his eyes moved down to my lips under the glow of the buzzing streetlight. He moved his face a little closer to mine, looked into my eyes, and rumbled, “And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies