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Unravel Me Quotes

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

Unravel Me Quotes
"I don’t have a window anymore. I don’t have a view."
"Life around here isn’t what I expected it to be."
"But nothing is working and all my parts are broken."
"This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together."
"I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe."
"I have 17 years to make up for and I want to feel everything."
"I’ve become a mold for liquid metal; thick, searing heat distributes itself throughout my body."
"You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it."
"I feel like someone’s punched a fist into my lungs and snatched up all my oxygen."
"Hot, terrible shame creeps up my neck and forces my head down again."
"Your actions were childish. Selfish. Thoughtless!"
"I want nothing more than to go to him, to have him hold me."
"I feel like I’m trapped in someone else’s story."
"His elevated body temperature indicates that he is exerting more energy than usual."
"Weakening his defenses, his immune system, his self-control."
"I can't breathe I can't breathe I can't breathe"
"All I know about myself is that I can break things—I don’t know why it happens."
"I'm not in the mood for your jokes, Kenji. Please just go away. Leave me alone."
"What are we talking about again? What events are you supposed to be replicating?"
"I needed a place to hide and couldn't find one."
"So, so, what? You think my body taps into its defense mode when I freak out?"
"Sometimes I allow my mouth to drop open, just a little bit; I touch my tongue to the backs of my teeth and the seam of my lips and I walk around this small space, I trail my fingers along the cracks in the concrete and wonder, I wonder what it would be like to speak out loud and be heard."
"I am so tired, love. I'm so very, very tired."
"I sit here every day. 175 days I've sat here so far."
"Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and run."
"I see the earth thought to take a peek at what we've been doing all this time and it's terrifying just how disappointed it sounds."
"I don't regret what I did. I'm not sorry at all."
"I've been through the worst possible experiences and you survived with your humanity still intact."
"We can't just cut off the head, you know? Like, if we just kill the enemy leader, then what? What would happen?"
"I'm going to tell you a secret. I don't regret what I did. I'm not sorry at all."
"Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget."
"You’re just scared. You’re afraid of what you’re unfamiliar with."
"On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness; on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth."
"Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes."
"So much of it was like seeing myself on paper, like reading all the things I never knew how to say."
"Every single day I’m sorry, sorry for believing the things I heard about you."
"The impermanence of life... makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin. It reminds us that we’ve been marked by the world, that we’re still alive."
"I don’t even know why I’m surprised. We share the same goddamn DNA."
"We don’t have to do anything at all to die. Living is a little more complex. There’s one thing we always have to do. Breathe."