Nayra Refaat

“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

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.”
― L.J. Smith, The Awakening