Tahereh Mafi Moon Quotes

This isn't about Adam or Warner," I tell him, "This is about me and what I want. This is about me finally understanding where I want to be in ten years. Because I'm going to be alive, Kenji. I will be alive in ten years, and I'm going to be happy. I'm going to be strong. And I don't need anyone to tell me that anymore. I am enough, and I always will be. ~ Tahereh Mafi

He doesn't even care about you!" Warner explodes. I flinch at the sudden, uncontrolled intensity in his voice.
"He just wants a way out of here and he's using you!"
He steps forward. "I could love you, Juliette-I would treat you like a queen- ~ Tahereh Mafi

Right now I feel certain that my imagination is much more dangerous than any of his truths. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss and loved trough stories threaded in history. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I love you.
He breaks. His voice. His back. His knees. His face. He breaks. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I am a spectacle, an anomaly even among the anomalies. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Every single time you claim to understand even a fraction of what I'm feeling, I want to disembowel you. I want to sever your carotid artery. I want to rip out your vertebrae, one by one. You have no idea what it is to love her," he says angrily. "You couldn't even begin to imagine. So stop trying to understand. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Do you like Shakespeare?" he asks me. An odd segue.
I shake my head. "All I know about him is that he stole my name and spelled it wrong. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I like the way I feel about myself when I'm with him." I say quietly. "Warner thinks I'm strong and smart and capable and he actually values my opinion. He makes me feel like his equal
like I can accomplish just as much as he can, and more. And if I do something incredible, he's not even surprised. He expects it. He doesn't treat me like I'm some fragile little girl who needs to be protected all the time. ~ Tahereh Mafi

You're perfect," I tell him, so overcome I forget myself. "All of you. Your entire body.
Proportionally. Symmetrically. You're absurdly, mathematically perfect. It doesn't even make sense
that a person could look like you, ~ Tahereh Mafi

The bed under my back is filled with broken clouds and freshly fallen snow; it's too soft, too comfortable. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Laughter comes from living. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I'm exhausting him. I'm making him sick and I'm weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he's using his gift to control what I might do - ~ 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 someone else. I only want you to be who you already are. Because I think I know the real you. I think I've seen him."
Warner says nothing, his chest rising and falling.
"I don't care what anyone else says about you," I tell him. "I think you're a good person. ~ Tahereh Mafi

My body felt like it was now made entirely of nerves, like muscle and bone had been removed to make room for all this new emotion ~ Tahereh Mafi

I don't think you're crazy." The world is blurring away as I watch it through the window. "And I don't think that you're a psychopath. I also don't think you're a sick, twisted monster. I don't think that you're a heartless murderer, and I don't think you deserve to die, and I don't think you're pathetic. Or stupid. Or a coward. I don't think you're any of the things people have said about you. ~ Tahereh Mafi

One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people who really needed someone to hold on to, and we had this past that made us seem so compatible. But it wasn't enough. Because if it were, I wouldn't have been able to walk away so easily. ~ Tahereh Mafi

My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I have nine different weapons concealed on my body right now. Would you like to choose the one I use to shoot you in the face? Or should i? ~ Tahereh Mafi

I mean, I deserve to be happy, don't I?" (...)
"You deserve to be the happiest ~ Tahereh Mafi

You know, I can sort of control it now," I tell him, beaming. "I can moderate my strength levels."
"Good for you. I'll buy you a balloon the minute the world stops shitting on itself. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I do so much with these lips, I think.
I taste and touch and kiss and I've pressed them to the tender parts of his skin and I've made promises and told lies and touched lives all with these two lips and the words they form, the shapes and sounds they curve around. But right now my lips wish he would just read my mind because the truth is I've been hoping I'd never have to say any of it, these thoughts, out loud ~ Tahereh Mafi

Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner. ~ Tahereh Mafi

My dreams are bloody and bleeding and blood is bleeding all over my mind and I can't sleep anymore. ~ Tahereh Mafi

His lips are spelling secrets and my ears are spilling ink, staining my skin with his stories. ~ Tahereh Mafi

My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I'm really paying attention to my surroundings. All of a sudden my senses feel sharper, clearer; my entire being feels like it's humming with a renewed kind of energy. I am electric. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Love is a heartless bastard ~ Tahereh Mafi

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. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I didn't believe it was possible to hide a woman's beauty. I thought women were gorgeous no matter what they wore, and I didn't think they owed anyone an explanation for their sartorial choices. Different women felt comfortable in different outfits.
They were all beautiful. ~ Tahereh Mafi

For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my throat. ~ Tahereh Mafi

God, she seemed so real in my dream.
I close my eyes, dragging a hand down my face; my fingers linger against my lips. I could feel her. I could really feel her. Even thinking about it now makes my heart race. I don't know what I'm going to do if I keep having such intense dreams about her. I won't be able to function at all. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I want to tell her to stop, to leave, but parts of me are at war. I'm happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn't make any sense. But I can't seem to reach for her; I can't hold her like I've always wanted to. ~ Tahereh Mafi

You never asked for anything from anyone. But no one ever gave you a chance. ~ Tahereh Mafi

You're my bird," I tell him. "You're my bird and you're going to help me fly away. ~ Tahereh Mafi

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

But now Warner's eyes are moving, studying me. He looks at me with such intensity I wonder if he's even aware he's doing it. I wonder if he knows that when he looks at me like that I can feel it as acutely as if his bare skin were pressed against my own, that it does things to me when he looks at me like that and it makes me crazy. ~ Tahereh Mafi

The destruction of the world didn't happen overnight, and neither will saving it, ~ Tahereh Mafi

I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now. ~ Tahereh Mafi

I'm starting to think that this situation is the exact antonym of excellent. ~ Tahereh Mafi