Aaron Warner Anderson Quotes

“Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.

I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“We are synonyms but not the same.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“There are three things you should know about me, love." He steps forward.
"The first," he says, "is that I hate my father more than you might ever be capable of understanding."
He clears his throat.
"Second, is that I am an unapologetically selfish person, who, in almost every situation, makes decisions based entirely on self-interest. And third." A pause as he looks down. Laughs a little.
"I never had any intention of using you as a weapon.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“What difference does it make?" he says. "People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation."
"So you don't mind," I ask him, "that people judge you so harshly?"
"I have no one to impress," he says. "No one who cares about what happens to me. I'm not in the business of making friends, love. My job is to lead an army, and it's the only thing I'm good at. No one," he says, "would be proud of the things I've accomplished. My mother doesn't even know me anymore. My father thinks I'm weak and pathetic. My soldiers want me dead. The world is going to hell. And the conversations I have with you are the longest I've ever had.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“So this—
This is agony.
This is what they talk about when they talk about heartbreak. I thought I knew what it was like before. I thought I knew, with perfect clarity, what it felt like to have my heart broken, but now—now I finally understand.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“I have never claimed to live by any set of principles," Warner says to me. "I've never claimed to be right, or good, or even justified in my actions. I have been forced to do terrible things in my life, love, and I am seeking neither your forgiveness nor your approval. Because I do not have the luxury of philosophizing over scruples when I'm forced to act on basic instinct every day.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“i worry, sometimes, that my love for her will expand beyond the limitations of my body, that it will one day kill me with its heft.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Do you know,” he says, closing the cover of the journal only to lay his hand on top of it. Protecting it. Staring at it. “I couldn’t sleep for days after I read that entry. I kept wanting to know which people were chasing you down the street, who it was you were running from. I wanted to find them,” he says, so softly, “and I wanted to rip their limbs off, one by one. I wanted to murder them in ways that would horrify you to hear.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“i think my heart is going to explode”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I'm nineteen years old," he clarifies. "I'm a fairly impressive specimen for my age, I know.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“So you know how to get there?"
"Of course."
"But your father said you couldn't remember anything about Omega Point."
Warner glances over, his eyes laughing. "How convenient for us that I've regained my memory.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“I'd acquired friends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“Idiots are highly flammable love, let them all burn in hell”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend, the one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of you body. " ... "I want to know where to touch you. I want to know how to touch you. I want to know how to convince you to design a smile just for me." ... "I want to be your best friend in the entire world”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“But he grins, so brilliantly, not even paying attention. "I love it when you say my name," he says. "I don't even know why."
"Warner isn't your name," I point out. "Your name is Aaron."
His smile is wide, so wide. "God I love that."
"Your name?"
"Only when you say it."
"Aaron? Or Warner?"
His eyes close. He tilts his head back against the wall. Dimples.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“lyhufml- Aaron Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“You and I, Juliette - together? We could be unstoppable.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter 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

“Grabs hold of my bare arms and says, "You are going to be okay. We're going to fix this-they're going to help me fix this and you-you're going to be fine." Deep breaths. "You're going to be perfect. Do you hear me? Juliette, can you hear me?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I'm not in denial-"
"Of course you are. You don't know it yet, Juliette, but you are a very bad girl," he says, cluthing his heart. "Just my type.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me