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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
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 think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Hope can make people do terrible things.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Hope will break your heart all over again.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I love you exactly as you are.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
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.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
All this has managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers “Please.” He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.” And he kisses me. His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s so effortlessly sweet. And then it changes. “Oh God—” He kisses me again, this time stronger, desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away. He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and I’m falling. I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background. Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run. Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette. Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you. Run, I said.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And I think people become who they really are when things get rough. I’ve seen it firsthand. With myself, my parents, with society, even. And yeah, Adam is a good guy. He really is. But just because he’s a good guy doesn’t make him the right guy for me.” I look up. “I’m so different now. I’m not right for him anymore, and he’s not right for me.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And that was it. There was nothing we could do. We just had to stand there, watching as they dropped bombs on thirty years of work, killed everyone too young or too old to fight back, and then massacred the rest of our team on the field.” He clenches his hand around mine. “I come back here every day,” he says. “Hoping someone will show up. Hoping to find something to take back.” He stops then, voice tight with emotion. “And here you are. This shit doesn’t even seem real.” I squeeze his fingers—gently, this time—and huddle closer to him. “We’re going to be okay, Kenji. I promise. We’ll stick together. We’ll get through this.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
And then he’s up up and away and I’m counting on one hand the number of men I’ve killed and marveling at how little it’s done to help me hold it together in Warner’s presence.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.” “Who’s Bruce Lee?” “Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.” “Why? Was he a friend of yours?” “You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.
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By AnonymTahereh Mafi
Arrogance is false confidence. It is born from insecurity. Haider pretends to be unafraid. He pretends to be crueler than he is. He lies easily. Than makes him unpredictable and, in som ways, a more dangerous opponent. But the majority of the time his actions are inspired by fear. And that makes him weak.
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