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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.


Tahereh Mafi

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WILLIAM SAFIRE How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
ALFA H I knew what I wanted to do. I just had to reach my goal and stay with it.
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HUGH JACKMAN I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE I feel the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul.
HARLEY KING 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 It was such a sad look, my heart just went out. But I fell in love with that picture. That's all we ...
DEBORAH DAWSON through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
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SHERWOOD ANDERSON It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just lo...
WARREN MOON When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
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FRED ASTAIRE I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for th...
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STEPHANIE LAURENS I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ...
HERMANN HESSE I wanted to be out there with my teammates. It just doesn't feel right when you're not out there.
JOSHUA JOHNSON All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM I wasn't trying to be demonstrative and all that stuff. I'm not trying to put my hands on the ref or...
STEVE SMITH I wanted to get another year of experience. I was weighing all my options; I just wasn't ready yet.
BEN HUMPHREY I was so tired. I just wanted to curl up with someone, anyone, even him, and sleep until work on Mon...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,...
MR. T Jordan is a natural comic. He is always making people laugh. After the love and excitement with my f...
DESIREE GARCIA My wife is coming. And I may not have hands to hold her hands, but I don't need hands to hold her he...
NICK VUJICIC I was in the goal but it hadn't yet registered that I could play the ball (with my hands). It in no ...
BETH DELLIPRISCOLI I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the...
ELISABETH SHUE I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of...
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MOLLY HASKELL The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with the...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another respon...
WARREN MOON I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.
SUZANNE COLLINS I need all my players to be at practice, but it's out of my hands. That matter is in the administrat...
DICKEY NUTT I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
MALCOLM X The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
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DAVID CARRADINE To fall in love with him was the first and biggest deal I've ever done in my life and I wanted him t...
HENANNIE ZARAGOZA Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart...
JIM VALVANO I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face....
JANAE MITCHELL My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.
BRIAN CARLWELL I just wanted to play my game, which is being aggressive and taking it to the basket. I was frustrat...
BRITTANY WINNER My body sometimes feels sore, but it works. I don't sleep well some nights, but I do wake up to figh...
UNKNOWN I was all excited. I went and shook hands with Tommy, and the first thing he pointed out to me was I...
STEVE BALLMER I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Then something happened. I felt ...
THOMAS A. DORSEY I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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CATHY GUISEWITE I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but wha...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human bein...
DEAN KOONTZ 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 I've slowly worked my way back in. I don't feel like I was ever out of shape. Being off for that mon...
JODI HOWELL From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid o...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I took the situation into my own hands — I was just being a mama.
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TOM PERROTTA I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I'...
PAULO COELHO I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I marri...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, an...
PORTIA DE ROSSI I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was...
LAMAR ODOM She had actually asked to sing at my Mom's funeral and wanted me to stay in touch with her, but I ha...
GARY GIBSON I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have spread out my stance just a touch and worked on keeping my hands back just a little further. ...
FRANK CATALANOTTO My best round ever was a 65. I was trying to beat that, but it didn't work out because of the bogeys...
ASHLEY KNOLL Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels...
DIANA GABALDON I grab a knife and hide, I wanna stop my life and die. But instead i just close my eyes, reach out m...
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ANTON LAVEY I realized my hands were in my pockets. He couldn't hold one even if he wanted to. Not unless he act...
ELISE ALLEN I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life...
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CASSANDRA CLARE love is when that special someones hands reach into your heart and cradle it with warmth...
FEMALE IMAGINATION XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be mov...
BRUCE DERN My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not i...
KANGANA RANAUT Just being out there with my dad, that was the best time growing up.
BRYAN HARSIN I wrestled better than I have my entire life. I didn't quite reach my goals, but I went out with a s...
CHUY LIRA I wanted to get my tail out of the water. It was just a fear of being eaten. That's exactly what it ...
DARREN KENYON The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever ...
JUSTINA CHEN There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another wi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another wi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

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TAHEREH MAFI So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"

"What?"
TAHEREH MAFI Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
TAHEREH MAFI Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs...
TAHEREH MAFI I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
TAHEREH MAFI I can do anything I want.
Be with anyone I want.
And it'll be my choice.
TAHEREH MAFI I am going to MURDER YOU—”
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TAHEREH MAFI Hey, um, I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a friend of mine," he says. "Have you seen her...
TAHEREH MAFI I do know that I don't want to wake him.

We were up very late last night.
TAHEREH MAFI Lift your hips for me, love.
TAHEREH MAFI I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."
TAHEREH MAFI His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heavi...
TAHEREH MAFI Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever ...
TAHEREH MAFI Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
TAHEREH MAFI I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I form...
TAHEREH MAFI For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my ...
TAHEREH MAFI I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
TAHEREH MAFI There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It wil...
TAHEREH MAFI Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."

I still.

"I can't stomach your p...
TAHEREH MAFI He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when...
TAHEREH MAFI Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
TAHEREH MAFI His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him...
TAHEREH MAFI So she told me a story. A story about a boy who was born with very green eyes, and the man who was s...
TAHEREH MAFI Hey--jazz hands!" Kenji barks. "Get your ass back over here." He makes it a point to look as irritat...
TAHEREH MAFI I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, tha...
TAHEREH MAFI On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to see...
TAHEREH MAFI Hope.

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

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping...
TAHEREH MAFI Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.
It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in ...
TAHEREH MAFI I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into y...
TAHEREH MAFI Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g...
TAHEREH MAFI And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
and not breathing and hearts beating
between us a...
TAHEREH MAFI His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
"Go to hell."
He works his jaw. Walks to t...
TAHEREH MAFI You’ve been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven’t you? So many people called you cra...
TAHEREH MAFI I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.
TAHEREH MAFI Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extr...
TAHEREH MAFI He looks immaculate.
Flawless, especially as he stands here among the dirt and destruction, sur...
TAHEREH MAFI I hear Warner laugh.
I see him smile.
It's the kind of smile that transforms him into some...
TAHEREH MAFI Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps.
TAHEREH MAFI His eyes are two buckets of rainwater: deep, fresh, clear. Hurt.
TAHEREH MAFI Why are you touching me?"

"Because I can.
TAHEREH MAFI Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.
TAHEREH MAFI Hope is a pocket of possibility.
I'm holding it in my hand.
TAHEREH MAFI Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
TAHEREH MAFI I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.
TAHEREH MAFI I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped...
TAHEREH MAFI My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.
TAHEREH MAFI I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to ...
TAHEREH MAFI She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascadin...
TAHEREH MAFI I like the way I feel about myself when I'm with him." I say quietly. "Warner thinks I'm strong and ...
TAHEREH MAFI Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a ...
TAHEREH MAFI I sigh. "I don't know what's happening to me."
"They're called hormones."

I shoot hi...
TAHEREH MAFI I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
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TAHEREH MAFI Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?
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TAHEREH MAFI 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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TAHEREH MAFI Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and h...
TAHEREH MAFI It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in becau...
TAHEREH MAFI I open the book and turn to the next page. Day three.

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

...
TAHEREH MAFI You’re perfect,” I tell him, so overcome I forget myself. “All of you. Your entire body.
...
TAHEREH MAFI This girl is destroying me.
TAHEREH MAFI But he grins, so brilliantly, not even paying attention. “I love it when you say my name,” he sa...
TAHEREH MAFI 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...
TAHEREH MAFI I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.
TAHEREH MAFI I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The...
TAHEREH MAFI Love is a heartless bastard
TAHEREH MAFI I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I've fallen for her.
And I've fallen....
TAHEREH MAFI People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
TAHEREH MAFI And I've fallen.

So hard.

I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in...
TAHEREH MAFI There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says ...
TAHEREH MAFI The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up...
TAHEREH MAFI I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the p...
TAHEREH MAFI Three forty-five-pound plates on each side of what Kenji told me is an Olympic bar, which weighs an ...
TAHEREH MAFI In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take eve...
TAHEREH MAFI I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.
TAHEREH MAFI 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...
TAHEREH MAFI Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin...
TAHEREH MAFI You think Warner is sexy?"
...
"I do like his face.
TAHEREH MAFI Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.

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

Warner nods, unimpr...
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TAHEREH MAFI And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this lif...
TAHEREH MAFI Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in lov...
TAHEREH MAFI Ignite, my love. Ignite.
TAHEREH MAFI We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this ...
TAHEREH MAFI Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and te...
TAHEREH MAFI My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do no...
TAHEREH MAFI They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right throu...
TAHEREH MAFI I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far....
TAHEREH MAFI Damn,” Kenji says after a moment. “Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas
TAHEREH MAFI It's strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those choc...
TAHEREH MAFI Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever.
TAHEREH MAFI I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough...
TAHEREH MAFI I'm petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational ...
TAHEREH MAFI There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitionary world. It's t...
TAHEREH MAFI Warner. A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. A fair - skinned boy with gold...
TAHEREH MAFI We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new day...
TAHEREH MAFI Juliette ? ” A tentative voice . “ Are you okay? ” I lower the pillow . Blink up . Warner is w...
TAHEREH MAFI No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kil...
TAHEREH MAFI He’s kissing me like the world is rolling right off a cliff, like he’s trying to hang on and he�...
TAHEREH MAFI His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. “You destroy me.”
TAHEREH MAFI I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your t...
TAHEREH MAFI I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know becau...
TAHEREH MAFI I grieve nothing. I take everything.
TAHEREH MAFI We breathe when we're wrong, we breathe when we're right, we breathe even as we slip off the ledge t...
TAHEREH MAFI I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.
TAHEREH MAFI I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.
TAHEREH MAFI Swallow the tears back often enough and they’ll start feeling like acid dripping down your throat....
TAHEREH MAFI 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. ...
TAHEREH MAFI 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.
TAHEREH MAFI 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...
TAHEREH MAFI 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.
TAHEREH MAFI 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
TAHEREH MAFI 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.
TAHEREH MAFI You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush ...
TAHEREH MAFI Juliette,” he says.

“Yes?”

I can hear him breathing.

“Thank...
TAHEREH MAFI