{"author":"Tahereh Mafi","author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi","total_quotes":125,"quotes":[{"text":"Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["advice","patience"],"id":1779,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. He’s shaking his head, holding up a hand in apology. And then he breaks, laughing out loud, snorting as he tries to muffle the sound. “I’m sorry,” he says, pressing his lips together, shaking his head again. “This is not a funny moment. It’s not. I’m not laughing.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["humor","ignite-me","kenji"],"id":2151,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right, if I said the right things or said nothing at all—I thought my parents would change their minds. I thought they would finally listen when I tried to talk. I thought they would give me a chance. I thought they might finally love me. I always had that stupid hope.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["life-lesson","parents"],"id":4916,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"Laughter comes from living.' I shrug, try to sound indifferent. 'I've never really been alive before.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["fiction","shatter-me","young-adult"],"id":5909,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my hea.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["destroy","ignite","me","revenge","scream","shatter"],"id":7762,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["danger","hope","lost"],"id":8903,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["fathers","hurt","love","shatter-me","tenderness"],"id":19228,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["adventure","beauty","color","contrast","explosion","hue","landscape","otherworldiness","view"],"id":21523,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["beautiful","ya"],"id":26725,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"Hope.It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["hope","juliette-ferrars","unravel-me"],"id":28098,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":125,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}