Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi Quotes

#1. I don't understand - why won't you talk to me?
You sit in the corner all day and write in your book and look at everything but my face. You have so much to say to a piece of paper but I'm standing right here and you don't even acknowledge me. Juliette, please -

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#2. Laughter comes from living.

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#3. I want to be that friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into that private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend.-Waren

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#4. I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

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#5. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you.

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#6. He takes my hand. Intertwines our fingers. Offers me a smile that manages to kiss my heart.

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#7. 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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#8. My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.

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#9. I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."
He tries to bite my finger.
I steal it back.

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#10. You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush despite my best efforts, flustered, frustrated.
"Blondie said they destroyed my clothes."
"Blondie?" Blond man is offended.

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#11. Love will set her free.

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#12. Kenji-""So the minute you opened your mouth you just shattered all his dreams, huh?"
Juliette- "I will push you off the roof."
Kenji-"Yeah, I can definitely see why Adam wouldn't like you.

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#13. It's strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I'm like that. I encapsulate a world of nothing.

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#14. 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.

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#15. That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.

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#16. I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet.

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#17. While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.

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#18. People can think whatever they like ... I don't desire their validation.

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#19. My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
I think I already love this kid.

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#20. We're drenched in water and beauty and the exhilaration of a moment I never knew was possible.

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#21. And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.

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#22. He pulls my swaddled figure close to his chest and I shatter. Two three four fifty thousand pieces of feeling stab me in the heart, melt into drops of warm honey that soothe the scars in my soul.

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#23. I want to convince you to design a smile just for me.

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#24. Infinite points of feeling for every nerve ending in my body

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#25. Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. If it were nothing but sexual attraction I'm sure I would not suffer such unbearable humiliation. But I wanted so much more than her body.

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#29. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.

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#30. I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

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