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Tahereh Mafi

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You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language....
TAHEREH MAFI
My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're...
TAHEREH MAFI
I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.
TAHEREH MAFI
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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We Are All Infinite
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not."

...
TAHEREH MAFI
Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
TAHEREH MAFI
He and I would end up like water going nowhere. Water that never moves-- It's fine for a little whil...
TAHEREH MAFI
But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure wo...
JANEL PARRISH
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the s...
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But...
ROBERT FROST
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One ...
TAHEREH MAFI
If it were nothing but sexual attraction I’m sure I would not suffer such unbearable humiliation. ...
TAHEREH MAFI
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...
OSAMU DAZAI
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
That would be more conducive to finding managers than to rely on an invite-only process.
DON PIERCE
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get benea...
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Keep a Day Timer so you know where you are supposed to be and when. Whether this system is in a tang...
CLAY CLARK
That's why it's called the leaf of life, and seen as an important symbol. It only needs water and it...
WAYNE MODEST
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
HORACE MANN
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it
HORACE MANN
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE
The only thing that's been disrupted are sleep patterns around here. We've all been working 16 or 18...
DAVID CAMERON
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when the...
MARK HYMAN
I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones."

I shoot hi...
TAHEREH MAFI
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES
The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three C...
SAMMY CAHN
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.
She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to b...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
We use energy every day on campus, with a lot of pollution and a lot of environmental costs with the...
KATELYN KEEFE
a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
blackmagic on a person http://www.astrodost.com/how-to-do-black-magic-on-a-person blackmagic on a pe...
ASTRODOST
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an ab...
C.S. LEWIS
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY
Day dreamer has pleasant thoughts about something he would prefer to be doing & fantasy while awake,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
NICOLE WILLIAMS
Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA
He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE
Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE
If I can’t sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
It's a fairly simple type of video. It doesn't fall back or rely on any special effects. We just had...
CARLOS PEREZ
For decades, new-energy researchers talked about the possibility of treating a magnet so that its ma...
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Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM
A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
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So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"

"What?"
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Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs...
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I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
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I can do anything I want.
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And it'll be my choice.
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I am going to MURDER YOU—”
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Hey, um, I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a friend of mine," he says. "Have you seen her...
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I do know that I don't want to wake him.

We were up very late last night.
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Lift your hips for me, love.
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I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."
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His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heavi...
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Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
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I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It wil...
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Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."

I still.

"I can't stomach your p...
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He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when...
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Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him...
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Hey--jazz hands!" Kenji barks. "Get your ass back over here." He makes it a point to look as irritat...
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I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, tha...
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Hope.

It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fre...
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I always wonder about raindrops.

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And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
and not breathing and hearts beating
between us a...
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His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
"Go to hell."
He works his jaw. Walks to t...
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You’ve been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven’t you? So many people called you cra...
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I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.
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Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extr...
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He looks immaculate.
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I hear Warner laugh.
I see him smile.
It's the kind of smile that transforms him into some...
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Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps.
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His eyes are two buckets of rainwater: deep, fresh, clear. Hurt.
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Why are you touching me?"

"Because I can.
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Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.
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Hope is a pocket of possibility.
I'm holding it in my hand.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.
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I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped...
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My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.
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I like the way I feel about myself when I'm with him." I say quietly. "Warner thinks I'm strong and ...
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Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a ...
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I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones."

I shoot hi...
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I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
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While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.
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Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?
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Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.
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we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manu...
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The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
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And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because ...
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I open the book and turn to the next page. Day three.

I started screaming today.
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You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches hig...
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That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.
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Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the on...
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And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this:...
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He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language....
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She is a soft, deadly creature. Kind and timid and terrifying. She's completely out of control and h...
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This isn't about Adam or Warner," I tell him, "This is about me and what I want. This is about me fi...
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You deserve so much more than charity," he said, his chest heaving. "You deserve to live, You deserv...
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I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.
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My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.
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Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.
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I have a curse.
I HAVE A GIFT.
I'm a monster.
I'M MORE THAN HUMAN.
My touch Is l...
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In just two days, one girl has managed to cripple me.
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Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
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Warner was supposed to be dead. Warner was supposed to be dead because I was supposed to have shot h...
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What difference does it make?" he says. "People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their v...
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My opinions,” I say to him, quietly this time, “should not so easily break your own. Stand by yo...
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You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not."

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You’re perfect,” I tell him, so overcome I forget myself. “All of you. Your entire body.
...
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This girl is destroying me.
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But he grins, so brilliantly, not even paying attention. “I love it when you say my name,” he sa...
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Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me;...
TAHEREH MAFI
Because I want her.
Now.
Here.
Everywhere.
I want nothing between us.
I wa...
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I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.
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I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The...
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Love is a heartless bastard
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I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I've fallen for her.
And I've fallen....
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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And I've fallen.

So hard.

I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in...
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There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says ...
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The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up...
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I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the p...
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I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.
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I'm not trying to fix you; I don't think you need to be fixed. I'm not trying to turn you into someo...
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Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin...
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You think Warner is sexy?"
...
"I do like his face.
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Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.

I want you to make a list of all you...
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Water that never moves." I say to him. "Its fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll...
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Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.
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Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid my...
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It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

Warner nods, unimpr...
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Aaron Warner Anderson, chief commander and regent of Sector 45, son of the supreme commander of The ...
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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this lif...
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Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in lov...
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Ignite, my love. Ignite.
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We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this ...
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I lock away the things that do no...
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Damn,” Kenji says after a moment. “Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas
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It's strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those choc...
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Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever.
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I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough...
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There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitionary world. It's t...
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Warner. A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. A fair - skinned boy with gold...
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We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new day...
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Juliette ? ” A tentative voice . “ Are you okay? ” I lower the pillow . Blink up . Warner is w...
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No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kil...
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He’s kissing me like the world is rolling right off a cliff, like he’s trying to hang on and he�...
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His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. “You destroy me.”
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I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your t...
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I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know becau...
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I grieve nothing. I take everything.
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We breathe when we're wrong, we breathe when we're right, we breathe even as we slip off the ledge t...
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I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.
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I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.
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Swallow the tears back often enough and they’ll start feeling like acid dripping down your throat....
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I’m happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn’t make any sense.
TAHEREH MAFI
Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One ...
TAHEREH MAFI
If it were nothing but sexual attraction I’m sure I would not suffer such unbearable humiliation. ...
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I’ve fallen for her…So hard. I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have...
TAHEREH MAFI
I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.
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There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa...
TAHEREH MAFI
That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she...
TAHEREH MAFI
Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty...
TAHEREH MAFI
I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.
TAHEREH MAFI
I will give no one the satisfaction of my death.
TAHEREH MAFI
Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest.
"Sire, please, can y...
TAHEREH MAFI
There’s something simmering inside of me. Something I’ve never dared to tap into, something I’...
TAHEREH MAFI
I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.
TAHEREH MAFI
Sometimes I close my eyes and paint these walls a different color. I imagine I’m wearing warm sock...
TAHEREH MAFI
This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would...
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She searches me with those odd, blue-green eyes and I feel guilty so suddenly, without understanding...
TAHEREH MAFI
Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, ...
TAHEREH MAFI
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
TAHEREH MAFI
These letters are all I have left.
26 friends to tell my stories to.
26 letters are all I ...
TAHEREH MAFI
Dude, you ran off with the crazy chick! You ran off with the psycho girl!" he's calling after Adam. ...
TAHEREH MAFI
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
TAHEREH MAFI
He whispers, "You have no idea how much I've thought about you. How many times I've dreamt"-he takes...
TAHEREH MAFI
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed...
TAHEREH MAFI
Adam stares at me so long I begin to blush. He tips my chin up so I meet his eyes. Blue blue blue bo...
TAHEREH MAFI
Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be e...
TAHEREH MAFI
Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds.

I can shoot a hundred numbers through the c...
TAHEREH MAFI
You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll n...
TAHEREH MAFI
Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than...
TAHEREH MAFI
I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. TAHEREH MAFI My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're...
TAHEREH MAFI
Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomor...
TAHEREH MAFI
The man is moody as hell.”

“I am not moody—”

“Yeah, bro.” K...
TAHEREH MAFI
Time goes on even when we do not.
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I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariousl...
TAHEREH MAFI
You can go to hell!"
"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.
TAHEREH MAFI
Please—please get up—and lower your voice—”
“Hell no.”
“Why no...
TAHEREH MAFI
Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?"
"What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look l...
TAHEREH MAFI
Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
TAHEREH MAFI
Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic a...
TAHEREH MAFI
Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.
TAHEREH MAFI
.. but you-with you-" Hefalters. Looks down. "How am I supposed to go back?" he asks, so quietly. "H...
TAHEREH MAFI
The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.
TAHEREH MAFI
Twice.
Once for Adam.
Once for Warner.
TAHEREH MAFI
People can think whatever they like....I don't desire their validation.
TAHEREH MAFI
Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
TAHEREH MAFI
I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.
TAHEREH MAFI
All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I'm unraveli...
TAHEREH MAFI
You know, I can sort of control it now," I tell him, beaming. "I can moderate my strength levels." TAHEREH MAFI I'm not falling for Warner," I say quietly.
"Sure you aren't."
"I'm not," I insist. "I'm j...
TAHEREH MAFI
Because I was dying.
  And Warner could’ve let me die. He was angry and hurt and had ever...
TAHEREH MAFI
He and I would end up like water going nowhere. Water that never moves-- It's fine for a little whil...
TAHEREH MAFI
Back to work. And this time, focus. You’re not an ape. Don’t just throw your shit everywhere.
TAHEREH MAFI
It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.
TAHEREH MAFI
So I take a deep breath.
Step forward.
Let go.

10 seconds and I'm trying to bre...
TAHEREH MAFI
At least I'm honest about being a liar
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I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.
TAHEREH MAFI
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush ...
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Juliette,” he says.

“Yes?”

I can hear him breathing.

“Thank...
TAHEREH MAFI