Tahereh Mafi
- Ignite Me
His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look my in the eyes and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these forever. Because this. This is everything.
Tahereh Mafi
- Juliette
The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
Tahereh Mafi
- Shatter Me
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships, I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived, love, and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Alexander the Great
Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendants of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue.
