Tahereh Mafi · 1327 pages
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“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, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. 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.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. They”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“...kiedy postanowiłam stanąć na Księżycu, wziąłeś mnie za rękę, przytuliłeś i pomogłeś mi wzbić się w niebo”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“jestem echem tego, co było kiedyś”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“tylko krople deszczu przypominają mi, że chmury mają bijące serca”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“zamykam świat. na klucz. przekręcam klucz do oporu.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“zaciskam powieki, chciałabym móc je zaszyć”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“obiecuję historię z milionem szczęśliwych przymiotników”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“chciałabym napełnić usta deszczem, napakować śniegu do kieszeni, chciałabym obrysować palcem żyłki w liściu, który spadł z drzewa i poczuć na nosie smagnięcia wiatru”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“stałam się szeptem, którego nigdy nie było”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“każdy centymetr mojego ciała oblewa się rumieńcem”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“spędzałam życie wsunięta między kartki książek”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“moje serce zamienia się w parę skrzydeł trzepoczących w przełyku”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“obejmuje palcami jego wyobrażenie w swojej dłoni i zasypiam”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
“czuję tylko dmuchawce, które spełniają życzenia w moich płucach”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me
Tahereh Mafi
Born place: The United States
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“The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there ...
...when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”
― Robert Bolt, quote from A Man for All Seasons
“Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Fever Pitch
“Don’t get me wrong. I’m not recommending one form of love over another. I don’t know if prudent or reckless love is the better, monied or penniless love the surer, heterosexual or homosexual love the sexier, married or unmarried love the stronger. I may be tempted towards didacticism, but this isn’t an advice column. I can’t tell you whether or not you’re in love. If you need ask, then you probably aren’t, that’s my only advice… But I can tell you why to love. Because the history of the world, which only stops at the half-house of love to bulldoze it into rubble, is ridiculous without it. The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love. Our random mutation is essential because it is unnecessary. Love won’t change the history of the world (that nonsense about Cleopatra’s nose is strictly for sentimentalists), but it will do something much more important: teach us to stand up to history, to ignore its chin-out strut. I don’t accept your terms, love says; sorry, you don’t impress, and by the way what a silly uniform you’re wearing. Of course, we don’t fall in love to help out with the world’s ego problem; yet this is one of love’s surer effects.’
Love and truth, that's the vital connection, love and truth. [. . .] How you cuddle in the dark governs how you see the history of the world.”
― Julian Barnes, quote from A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from What Really Happened in Peru
“ولكن أنواع العقوبات قليلة، في حين أن أنواع الجرائم تعد بالألوف، فهناك من أنواع الجرائم بقدر ما هنالك من أنواع الطباع”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The House of the Dead
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