My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over.

Tahereh Mafi


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There is a distinct flavor of panic lodged somewhere underneath my tongue and I'm fighting to remember where it came from.

Tahereh Mafi


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I have a curse.
I HAVE A GIFT.
I'm a monster.
I'M MORE THAN HUMAN.
My touch Is lethal.
MY TOUCH IS POWER.
I am their weapon.
I WILL FIGHT BACK.

Tahereh Mafi

Stichwörter: dystopian-fiction teen-fiction



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You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because I can inflict pain, that I should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all.

Tahereh Mafi

Stichwörter: sci-fi dystopian-fiction teen-fiction



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Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi


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

Tahereh Mafi


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

Tahereh Mafi


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Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.

Tahereh Mafi


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My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.

Tahereh Mafi

Stichwörter: love hurt fathers tenderness shatter-me



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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.

Tahereh Mafi

Stichwörter: love eyes blue tenderness shatter-me



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