Destroy Me Tahereh Mafi Quotes & Sayings

I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I've fallen for her.
And I've fallen.
So hard.
I've hit the ground. — Tahereh Mafi

I'm happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn't make any sense. — Tahereh Mafi

Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack. — Tahereh Mafi

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. — Tahereh Mafi

I've fallen for her ... So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have if felt this. Nothing like this ... I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching. Love is a heartless bastard. I'm driving myself insane. — Tahereh Mafi

You... you destroy me. — Tahereh Mafi

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do not serve me. — Tahereh Mafi

And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything. — Tahereh Mafi

I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart. — Tahereh Mafi

There's something simmering inside of me. Something I've never dared to tap into, something I'm afraid to acknowledge. There's a part of me clawing to break free from the cage I've trapped it in, banging on the doors of my heart, begging to be free. Begging to let go. Every day I feel like I'm reliving the same nightmare. I open my mouth to shout, to fight, to swing my fists, but my vocal cords are cut, my arms are heavy and weighted down as if trapped in wet cement and I'm screaming but no one can hear me, no one can reach me and I'm caught. And it's killing me. I've always had to make myself submissive, subservient, twisted into a pleading, passive mop just to make everyone else feel safe and comfortable. My existence has become a fight to prove I'm harmless, and I'm not a threat, that I'm capable of living among other human beings without hurting them. And I'm so tired I'm so tire I'm so tired I'm so tired and sometimes I get so angry. I don't know what's happening to me. — Tahereh Mafi

I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions. — Tahereh Mafi

I allowed myself to believe she'd seen a future for us; that she wanted to be with me and simply thought it impossible. — Tahereh Mafi

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day. — Tahereh Mafi

Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said. — Tahereh Mafi

I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind. — Tahereh Mafi

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

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet. — Tahereh Mafi

That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she is. No idea what she'd about to become.
And if he thinks he's even remotely suited to match her, he's even more of an idiot than I gave him credit for. — Tahereh Mafi

What I really want to say is who the hell are you and who are you to decide who gets to die. Who are you to decide who should be killed. Who are you tell me which father I should destroy and which child I should orphan and which mother should be left without her son, which brother should be left without a sister, which grandmother should spend the rest of her life crying in the early hours of the morning because they body of her grandchild was buried in the ground before her own. — Tahereh Mafi

I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being. — Tahereh Mafi

My opinions," I say to him, quietly this time, "should not so easily break your own. Stand by your convictions. Form clear and logical arguments. Even if I disagree. — Tahereh Mafi

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

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time. — Tahereh Mafi

I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones. — Tahereh Mafi

His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. "You destroy me."
I am falling to pieces in his arms.
My fists are full of unlucky pennies and my heart is a jukebox demanding a few nickels and my head is flipping quarters heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails
"Juliette," he says, and he mouths the name, barely speaking at all, and he's pouring molten lava into my limbs and I never even knew I could melt straight to death.
"I want you," he says. He says "I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you." He says it like it's a lit cigarette lodged in his throat, like he wants to dip me in warm honey and he says "It's never been a secret. I've never tried to hide that from you. I've never pretended I wanted anything less. — Tahereh Mafi

Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest.
"Sire, please, can you hear me-"
"I've been shot, Delalieu," I manage to say. I open my eyes. Look into his watery ones. "I haven't gone deaf. — Tahereh Mafi

There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the way I looked at her, the fact I even existed. She'd always tell me to stop looking at her. She'd always scream it. Like I might attack her. Stop looking at me, she'd scream. You just stop looking at me, she'd scream.
She put my hand in the fire once.
Just to see if it would burn, she said. Just to check if it was a regular hand, she said.
I was 6 years old then.
I remember because it was my birthday. — Tahereh Mafi