Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

About Tahereh Mafi:

Tahereh Mafi is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author. Shatter Me was her first novel and was published on November 15, 2011. Since that point Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been published. She also has two e-books that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me and Fracture Me. Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox films.
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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.

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Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

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A tired starving dog so thin and frail it looks like it could be knocked over by the wind. But it's staring at me. Unafraid. Mouth opened. Tongue lolling. I want to laugh out loud. I glanced around quickly before scooping the dog into my arms. I don'...

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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 heart attack.

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And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've ...

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That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.

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I'm trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I'm lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable amount of agony.

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I grieve nothing. I take everything.

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I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I couldn't scream because my lungs were torn apart or full of blood. I don't know. I just had to lie there, trying to breathe, hoping to drop dead as quickly as possib...

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How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.

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I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

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You will not be alone, I say to them, spinning to see their faces. You don't need to be afraid anymore. We want to take back our world. We want to save the lives of our family members, our friends. We want your children to have a chance at a better f...

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I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before.

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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 he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft. "Because they're dead, love. They're all dead.

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I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

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For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, ...

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I want you to be happy," I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you," I say. 'You deserve that.

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There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly.

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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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Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You’re like a freaking beast,” he says. Then adds, “I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that ...

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Author Bio

  • NameTahereh Mafi
  • Born1988
  • CountryUnited States Of America