Gracey

“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.” His fingers graze the hem of my top and he says “I want this up.” He tugs on the waist of my pants and says “I want these down.” He touches the tips of his fingers to the sides of my body and says, “I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,” he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Sometimes I am so desperate for quiet that I think I might commit murder for a moment of silence. Instead, I shut down incrementally as I'm able.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“When she's here, right here, it's so much easier to breath. She's real when she's in my arms”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“To the world, she is formidable.
To me? She is the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me