Lec

“I will love you for the reset of my life. My heart is yours. Please don’t ever give it back to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I've changed somewhere deep inside. I feel different. Heavier, like my feet have been more firmly planted, liberated by certainty, free to grow roots here in my own self, free to trust unequivocally in the strength and steadiness of my own heart. It's an empowering discovery, to find that I can trust myself - even when I'm not myself - to make the right choices.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I think he wants to pretend I’m the girl who doesn’t really speak and spends most of her time being scared. The kind of girl he needs to protect and take care of all the time. I don’t know if he likes who I am now. I don’t know if he can handle it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It’s weird, how I feel when I look at him now. There is no extreme emotion in me. No excess of happiness or sadness. Not upset. Not overjoyed. His face is familiar to me; his body, familiar to me. His unsteady smile, as he looks at me, is familiar to me.
How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me