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Tahereh Mafi
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper chara...
“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I ...
“Lift your hips for me, love.”
“We’re running out of time, he said.As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into ...
“What the hell is wrong with you, man? I thought we were cool.”“We were,” Warner says icily. “Until you touched my hair....
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
“Hope.It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a...
“I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”
“That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.”
“But — why would she break up with you? Why was she crying?” At this, I laugh again.“ Because I,” I say, pointing at mys...
“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of...
“I'm having a panic attack, you inconsiderate ass.”
“Who says you can’t be cute and kick ass at the same time?” Kenji winks at me. “I do it every day.”
“Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive ma...
“So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?""What?""All of this," Kenji says, waving a hand...
“Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."I still."I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly an...
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
