Quotes from Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

Bookish Mardi: Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

"I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me. 

Fear will learn to fear me." - Tahereh Mafi

Book Summar

With Omega Point Destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world. . . but that's not all he wants with her. 

(Source: Goodreads )

Remarkable Lines from the Book

"I am an hourglass." - Juliette

". . . the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it." - Juliette

- Juliette

"Adam is gone." - Juliette

". . . revenge I think has never looked so sweet." - Juliette

"Hope will break your heart all over again." - Warner 

"There are far more effective methods of extracting information from the unwilling." - Warner

"I though I understood what it meannt to suffer." - Juliette

"It scared me to think you were so ready to sacrifice yourself before using your abilities to defend yourself." - Warner

". . . I dreamed up a million different scenarios in which I would stand up and defend myself." - Juliette

"I'm realizing anger comes a little too naturally to me." - Juliette

"I have never claimed to live by any set of principles." - Warner

- Warner

"If only my emotions would understand the importance of excellent timing." - Juliette

". . . there's something about darkness. . ." - Juliette

"I want a pocketful of punctuations marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head." - Juliette

"People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation." - Warner

"You deserve so much more that charity. You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive." - Warner

"If you're going to survive, you can never be indifferent to your surroundings. You can't depend on others to take care of you. You cannot presume that someon else will do things right." - Warner

"If you do not understand your opponent - or worse, if you underestimate your opponent - you are going to lose." - Warner

"Sometimes different is better." - Juliette

"Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced." - Juliette

"I give and I give and I give, and I get nothing in return." - Kenji

"I have learned to break free." - Juliette

"I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me. Fear will learn to fear me." - Juliette

"Maybe one day another group will be smarter - stronger - but I don't think it's us anymore. I don't think we stand a chance." - Adam

"Sometimes I think you live in a fantasy land where everyone survives on optimism. . ." - Juliette

"Words, I think,  are such unpredictable creatures. No gud, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carryng into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh." - Juliette

"I've finally  gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom - not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die in a prison of my own making." - Juliette

"If I go to war - if I risk my life - it's going to be because the odds are in my favor. Not otherwise." - Adam

"I don't think it's stupid to fight for humanity." - Juliette

"I have to admit. I'm not often keen on revenge, but it does sound very sweet right now." - Brendan

"What about me? What about our relationship? When did it stop being enough for you." - Adam

Juliette: "I don't want to live in fear anymore. I have to fight back. I thought we wanted the same things.
Adam: "No - I wanted you. That's all I wanted. From the very beginning, Juliette. You were it. You were all I wanted.'

Warner: "Contrary to what you might believe, love, I am not an idiot."
Juliette: "I never thought you were and idiot. I thought you were crazy."

"I need air. I need a new brain. I need to jump out of a window and catch a ride with a dragon to a world far from here." - Juliette

"Sometimes I wonder if the planets are still up there, still aligned. still managing to get along after all this time. Maybe we could learn a year or two from them." - Juliette

"It's hard being lonely. We all get a little desperate sometimes." - Kenji

"Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love it." - Juliette

Juliette: "I don't want to this without you."
Kenji: "Who said you are going to do anything without me. I'm here for you, kid. That's what friends are for."

"Thinking you were dead was so much better. It hurt so much less than this." - Adam

"No. I don't. And I thought you should know. I'm not trying to fix you; I don't think you need to be fixed.I'm not trying to turn you into someone else. I only want you to be who you really are. Because I think I know the real you. I think I've seen him." - Juliette to Warner

- Juliette

"Warner.
A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head.
A fair-skinned boy with gold hair, the leader of Sector 45.
It was always him. All along." - Juliette

"In what alternate universe would I ever be naked with you?" - Juliette

". . . I'm pretty sure Romeo wouldn't have let us come with him if he weren't a little bit in live with you." - Kenji

"This is the trickiest part of me: learning hot to moderate my strength with finnese."- Juliette

"I trust myself to be strong enought to do what's right." - Juliette

"I am the same man I've always been and I have never tried tobe different." - Warner

"What you don't understand is that I don't even know my own heart." - Juliette

"You have to give yourself permission to let it (strength) go. Let dow your guard. Find it. Release it." - Kenji

". . . sometimes people can weigh us down, too." - Juliette

". . . I think people become who they really are when things get rough." - Juliette

"You don't know what it was like in my head. I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering maybe I was already dead because I couldn't tell the difference. I had a small thread of hope and I clung to it, but the majority of my life was spent waiting around to see if someone would take pity on me." - Juliette

- Juliette

"I am going to be strong. And I don't need anyone to tell me that anymore. I am enough, and I will always be." - Juliette

"Why do things always have to be so complicated?" - Juliette

"How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime." - Juliette

"This kind of shit doesn't justhappen overnight. You just don't just fall out of love with someone like that."  - Kenji

"Strength is excellent but it's worth nothing without technique. If you can be overpowered, you are not enough." - Warner

"You have to be able to anticipate your opponent in every possible way, both mentally physically. Strength is only the first step." -  Kenji

"If you're going to hesitate, do it on purpose. If you're going to hurt someone, do it on purpose. If you're going to lose a fight, do it on purpose." - Warner

"Never fight when you're angry. Anger will make you weak and clumsy. It will divert your focus. Your insticts will fail you." - Warner

". . .  the simple knowledge of understanding how to defend myself has made me so much more confident." - Juliette

"If you hide your heart, he will never be able to take it away from you." - Warner

"We are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose. It's time, I think, to break free." - Juliette

"I will live with no regrets. I will reach into the earth and rip out the injustice and I will crush it in my bare hands." - Juliette

"I will never end up with anyone by default. I can do anything I want now. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choices." - Juliette

"I am a pile of bones on the floor and no one knows it but me. I am a broken skeleton with a beating heart." - Juliette

". . . just because you're bound by blood does not make you a family." - Juliette

"Can you hear my heart? I want to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it." - Juliette

"There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world." - Warner

 "How very strange this world is." - Juliette

"Our worls is not beyond repair. It's not beyond saving. We can be our own army. We can stand together." - Juliette

"There's a lot of power in a name." - Juliette

"One father, I think. Three brothers. Two who nearly killed each other, all because of the world they were bred in. Because of the many words, the many lies they were fed." - Juliette

". . . my friendship comes with so many more benefits than Kenji could ever offer." - Warner

". . . though we'll know forward and we've known backward, we will never know the present." - Juliette

"Beat the crazy with crazy." - Kenji

"The first part I think is going to be the hardest." - Juliette

". . . my mind is in a place where nothing else matters anymore." - Juliette

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Quotes from Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

Bookish Mardi: Quotes from Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

"Good intentions are great, but they don't change facts."
- Tahereh Mafi

Book Summary

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Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like he - people with gifts - and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. 

She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch.

Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. 

In this exhilarating sequel  to Shatter Me, Juliette has to make life-changing decisions between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might involve choosing her heart - and Adam's life. (Source : Goodreads)

Remarkable Lines from the Book

"Ideas are caried in pockets, thoughts propped up on the tips of every tongue; eyes are narrowed in concentration, in careful planning I should want to know about." - Juliette

". . . time is beyond our finite comprehension. It's endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not." - Juliette

". . .  everything is connected in a way we don't yet understand." - Castle

"Good intentions are great, but they don't change facts." - Kenji

". . .  you have to learn how to control what you do - how to contain it. You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it." - Kenji

"I don't have to a closet filled with umms and ellipses ready to insert at the beginnings and ends of sentences. I don't know how to be a verb, an adverb, any kind of modifier. I'm a noun through and through." - Juliette

"Bad news offers no returns once received." - Juliette

"How is it possible that I'm this close to you and it's killing me that you're still so far away." - Castle

"I wanted to believe in fairy tales and happy endings and pure possibility." - Juliette

"I thought I could live out the stories I'd read in so many books when I was a child." - Juliette

"We are synonyms but not the same." - Juliette

". . . it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control." - Juliette

"Loneliness is a strange sort of thing." - Juliette

". . . sometimes there are people out there who still manage to smile every day, despite everything." - Juliette

"Hope can make people do terrible things." - Juliette

". . . things can get better as long as power is put in the right hands." - Juliette

". . . people seeking power are not to be trusted." - Juliette

"You're not the only person in this world who doesn't want to get out of bed in the morning." - Kenji

"Sometimes I wonder about glue. No one ever stops to ask glue how it's holding up. If it's tired of sticking things together or worried about falling apasrt." - Juliette

"Because sometimes you see yourself - you see yourself the way you could be - the way you might be if things were different. And if you look too closely, what you will see will scare you, it'll make you wonder what you might do if given the opportunity. You know there's a different side of yourself you don't want to recognize, a side you don't want to see in the daylight. You spend your whole life soing everything to push it sown and away, out of sight, out of mind. You pretend that a piece of yourself doesn't exist." - Juliette

"I see the world about its people and what it's become and think about hope and maybe and possibly and possibility and potential." - Juliette

"Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence." - Juliette

"It's always so frustating when people waste my time." - Supreme COmmander Anderson

". . . why even have a love affair? I never understood that kind of crap. If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat." - Kenji

"I'm all out of letters. Fresh out of words. Someone has robbed me of my entire vocabulary." - Juliette

"You broke up with me. You gave up on us - on out entire future together. You basically reached in and ripped my heart out and now you're asking me if I'm okay? How the hell am I supposed to be okay, Juliette? What kind of question is that?" - Adam

- Adam 

"There's glue all over my tongue, stuck to my teeth, my lips, the foor of my mouth, and I can't speak, I can't move, I'm pretty sure I just had a seizure or an aneurysm or heart failure or something equally as awful." - Juliette

"I don't know what it is about sleep that makes our faces appear so soft and innocent, so peaceful and vulnerable." - Juliette

". . . some people are too far gone, that sometimes you can't turn back, that there are problem in this world who don't deserve a second chance." - Juliette

"What a lie appearances can be. What a terrible, terrible lie." - Juliette

"I don't know why my heart is losing  its mind." - Juliette

"The books. . .they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether." - Juliette

". . . soldier does not always have to agree in order to obey." - Adam

- Juliette

"Books are easily destroyed. But words will remain as long as people can remember them." - Warner

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"I know who I am. That's enough for me." - Warner

"On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness." - Aaron Warner

". . . the only people who matter in this wretched world are the ones with real power." - Warner

"My loyalties lie with those who know how to live. I only have two options in this game. Kill or be killed." - Warner

". . . sometimes, especially when frightened, people will not react positively." - Castle

"Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary." - Warner

"We don't have to do anything at all to die." 

". . . love is like a vroken tire swing, an inborn child, a fistful of wishbones. It's all possibility and potential, wrong and right stepd toward a future we're not even guaranteed." - Juliette

"I am the encarnation of error." - Juliette

"I know my own heart. I know who I am. Don't you dare pity me." - Warner

"The truth is a paintful reminder of why I prefer to live among lies." - Warner

". . . death is a strange, distant thing you've only ever seen happen to people you've never known and surely it doesn't happen to me, to you, to any of the rest of us." - Juliette

"For 17 years I tried to force myself into a mold that I hoped would make other people feel comfortable, safe, unthreatened. And it never helped." - Juliette

"Impossible is such a stupid word." - Juliette

-Juliette

"Mass chaos is in my future." - Juliette

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