Shatter Me Warner Quotes

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

Tahereh Mafi

#2. 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.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Aaron Levie

#4. I've loved being the sarcastic chick, but I didn't want to be her forever.

Lizzy Caplan

#5. Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform.
Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission

Judith-Victoria Douglas

#6. I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

Donald Trump

#7. Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

Simon Boylan

#8. Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.

Asa Don Brown

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

Tahereh Mafi

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

Tahereh Mafi

#11. 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.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

H. H. Asquith

#13. 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.

Tahereh Mafi

#14. If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

Confucius

#15. I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Tahereh Mafi

#16. 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.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Ani DiFranco

#18. We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

Anthony Pratt

#19. The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

Maurice Francis Egan