Shaily Yashar

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“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 might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent