946 Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

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    The morning arrived the way Alice imagined a whisper would: in tendrils of gray and threads of gold, quietly, quietly. The sky was illuminated with great care and deliberation, and she leaned back to watch it bloom.

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    He’s standing at the front door, hands shoved casually in his pockets, no fewer than six different guns pointed at his face.

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    You shot Adam,” are the only words I can think of. My mind is muddled with disbelief. I keep seeing his beautiful body crumpled on the ground, red red red. I need to know if he’s alive. He has to be alive. Warner’s eyes flash. “Kent is dead.” “No –.

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    Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don’t know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner.

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    I can’t help but find it both painful and beautiful that Warner lost a mother and gained two brothers in the same week.

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    I feel so shy so suddenly. So blind, so unnecessarily bold.

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    In my less charitable moments I might call him a coward, but I get it. I’d opt out, too, if I could. I just don’t feel like I can. There’s still too much I’m willing to die for.

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    I’m feeling stupid. I’m feeling brave because I’m feeling stupid.

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    It’s like I’ve been stuffed full of twigs and all I have to do is bend and my body will break. All the guilt, the anger, the frustration, the pent-up aggression inside of me has found an outlet and now it can’t be controlled.

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