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Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi
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"I honey you lot, Ella. I volition love you for the residuum of my life. My eye is yours. Please don't always give it back to me.

- Warner"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"You think these recent events are everything. You recall Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a insubordinate girl named Juliette. You lot don't know. You don't know. You don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since babyhood...…..The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions - Aaron ever fell in love with her. Every time.

- Delalieu"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"It's non insane to imagine that sometimes fifty-fifty horrible people are searching for a fashion out of their own darkness."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Happiness does non happen. Happiness must exist uncovered, separated from the pare of pain. It must exist claimed. Kept shut. Protected."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"In this new, turbulent reality, the one person I recognize is him. My memories of him - memories of u.s. - have washed something to me. I've changed somewhere deep inside. I feel different. Heavier, like my feet have been more firmly planted, liberated by certainty, free to abound roots here in my own self, free to trust unequivocally in the strength and steadiness of my ain eye. It's an empowering discovery, to find that I can trust myself - even when I'm not myself - to make the right choices. To know for sure now that there was at least one fault I never made.

Aaron Warner Anderson is the only emotional through line in my life that ever fabricated sense. He's the only constant. The but steady, reliable heartbeat I've ever had.

Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron.

I had no idea how much we'd lost, no thought how much of him I'd longed for. I had no idea how desperately nosotros'd been fighting. How many years we'd fought for moments - minutes - to be together.

Information technology fills me with a painful kind of joy.

- Ella"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I want to recollect to gloat more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I desire to allow myself to be happy more ofttimes. I desire to recollect, forever, this expect on Aaron'southward face, as he'south bullied into bravado out his altogether candles for the very first fourth dimension.
This is, after all, what we're fighting for, isn't information technology?
A 2d chance at joy."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I tin can't retrieve a single fourth dimension in my life when someone apologized to me for hurting my feelings. No one has ever cared most my feelings long enough to apologize for hurting them. In my experience, I'm usually the monster. I'g the i expected to make amends.

- Warner"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Ally me,' he whispers.
I stare at him, disbelief and joy colliding. And information technology's the await in his eyes —the hopeful, terrified look in his eyes— that nearly kills me. I'm suddenly crying.
I clasp my hands over my face. A sob escapes my mouth. Gently, he pries my easily away from my face.
'Ella?' he says, his words barely a whisper.
I'grand even so crying when I throw my arms around his neck, still crying when he says, a little nervously—
'Sweetheart, I actually need to know if this ways yes or no—'
'Yes,' I cry, slightly hysterical. 'Yep, yes to everything with y'all. Yes to forever with yous. Aye."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn't matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions— Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I know I'one thousand fiddling and I don't intendance.

- Kenji"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"He smiles. "You know- I feel everything when you lot bear upon me, beloved. I can feel your excitement. Your nervousness. Your pleasure. And I love it," he says quietly. "I dear the way you respond to me. I honey the way you lot want me. I feel it when you lose yourself, the way you trust me when we're together. And I feel your beloved for me," he whispers. "I experience it in my basic,"
~ Warner to Ella/Juliette"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Have you lot e'er heard of Blue Streak?"
I glimmer at him. "That's the name of a flick?"
"Romeo Must Die? Bad Boys? Blitz Hour? Rush Hour 2? Rush Hour three? Actually, Rush Hour iii wasn't that great. Tangled?
"That last ane, I believe, is a drawing about a daughter with very long hair, inspired by the German fairy tale Rapunzel."
Kenji looks like he might be choking. "A drawing?" he says, outraged. "Tangled is not a cartoon. Tangled is one of the greatest movies of all time. Information technology'due south about fighting for freedom and true beloved."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"This is, after all, what we're fighting for, isn't information technology?

A second run a risk at joy.

- Ella"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Aaron always vicious in beloved with her. Every time."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I'g not trying to get yous to sleep with me. I just literally had to lie down. Thank yous for affectionate my face. I've always thought I had an underappreciated face.

- Kenji"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Forgive me. I know it all seems stupid now, but I don't want to take anything for granted anymore. Forgive me for hurting you. Forgive me for not trusting you. I took my pain out on you and I'm and then lamentable. I was selfish, and I hurt yous, and I'm so sorry.

- Ella"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"And I realize then, in a moment that terrifies me, that I desire this, forever. I desire to spend the residual of my life with her. I want to build a future with her. I want to grow old with her.
I want to marry her."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I dear you, Ella.' I whisper. 'I will dearest you for the rest of my life. My heart's yours. Please don't ever requite it back to me."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I don't retrieve you should treat me like this, like I'm some idiot cypher, just because I don't know how to be a douchebag.
- Kenji"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I experience it, I feel my thin morals dissolving. I feel my flimsy, moth-eaten skin of humanity begin to come autonomously, and with it, the veil keeping me from complete darkness. There are no lines I won't cross. No illusions of mercy.

I wanted to be better for her. For her happiness. For her future.

Just if she'south gone, what good is goodness?

- Warner"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"It was obvious, every time he put them in the aforementioned room. They were similar magnets."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Nosotros're going to find time for happiness. Because how can nosotros stand against tyranny if we ourselves are filled with hate?"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"You lot swallow like a caveman."
"No, I don't," he says angrily. And so, a moment afterwards: "Do I?"

Warner to Kenji"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Aaron Warner Anderson is the only emotional through line in my life that ever made sense. He'southward the only constant. The only steady, reliable heartbeat I've ever had."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Right at present all I want is this. I but want to be here. With y'all. Whatever comes side by side, nosotros'll confront it together."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"If you lot want nice Kenji mayhap you should check back in the morning, because correct now all I've got is jack shit in the fashion of pleasantries.

- Kenji"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Today is not forever. Happiness does not happen. Happiness must be uncovered, separated from the skin of pain. It must exist claimed. Kept close. Protected."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"Y'all know —I feel everything when you bear on me, dear. I can experience your excitement. Your nervousness. Your pleasance. And I love it,' he says quietly. 'I love the way you respond to me. I love the way you lot want me. I experience information technology, when you lot lose yourself, the way you lot trust me when we're together. And I feel your love for me,' he whispers. 'I experience it in my basic.'
'I have loved you my entire life.' He looks up, looks at me with and then much feeling it nearly breaks my eye.
'Ella,' he says, his vocalism rough with feeling. 'I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"I don't know that they always fell in beloved, exactly. Paris seldom allow them spend that much fourth dimension alone. But they were ever drawn together. It was obvious, every time he put them in the same room, they were like"—Delalieu claps his easily—"magnets."

"You don't sympathise, you lot don't understand, you don't understand," he cries, shaking his head. "Y'all think these recent events are everything. You think Aaron brutal in honey with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. Y'all don't know. You don't know. Y'all don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since childhood."
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

"No one warned me almost the nightmares, the panic attacks, or the night destructive thoughts that would follow. No one explained to me how darkness works, how it feasts on itself or how information technology festers. I hardly recognize myself these days. Condign an instrument of torture destroyed what was left of my mind.
- Warner"
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

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