Warnette Quotes

“You think these recent events are everything. You think Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life. They've known each other since childhood...…..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.


- Delalieu”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I love you, Ella. I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart is yours. Please don't ever give it back to me.

- Warner”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Marry me,' he whispers.
I stare at him, disbelief and joy colliding. And it's the look in his eyes —the hopeful, terrified look in his eyes— that nearly kills me. I'm suddenly crying.
I clasp my hands over my face. A sob escapes my mouth. Gently, he pries my hands away from my face.
'Ella?' he says, his words barely a whisper.
I'm still crying when I throw my arms around his neck, still crying when he says, a little nervously—
'Sweetheart, I really need to know if this means yes or no—'
'Yes,' I cry, slightly hysterical. 'Yes, yes to everything with you. Yes to forever with you. Yes.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I can't remember a single time in my life when someone apologized to me for hurting my feelings. No one has ever cared about my feelings long enough to apologize for hurting them. In my experience, I'm usually the monster. I'm the one expected to make amends.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“It hits me with a painful force, the reminder. Of just how much I love her. God, I love all of her. Her impossibilities, her exasperations. I love how gentle she is with me when we’re alone. How soft and kind she can be in our quiet moments. How she never hesitates to defend me.
I love her.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“In this new, turbulent reality, the one person I recognize is him. My memories of him - memories of us - have done something to me. I've changed somewhere deep inside. I feel different. Heavier, like my feet have been more firmly planted, liberated by certainty, free to grow roots here in my own self, free to trust unequivocally in the strength and steadiness of my own heart. It's an empowering discovery, to find that I can trust myself - even when I'm not myself - to make the right choices. To know for certain now that there was at least one mistake I never made.

Aaron Warner Anderson is the only emotional through line in my life that ever made sense. He's the only constant. The only steady, reliable heartbeat I've ever had.

Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron.

I had no idea how much we'd lost, no idea how much of him I'd longed for. I had no idea how desperately we'd been fighting. How many years we'd fought for moments - minutes - to be together.

It fills me with a painful kind of joy.

- Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I touch his face, almost without meaning to, gently , like he might be a ghost, like this might be a dream and the tips of my fingers graze his cheek, trail the line of his jaw and I stop when his breath catches, when his body shakes almost imperceptibly and we lean in as if by memory eyes closing lips just touching
“Give me another chance, ” he whispers, resting his forehead against mine.
My heart aches, throbs in my chest. “Please,” he says softly, and he’s somehow closer now, his lips touching mine as he speaks and I feel pinned in place by emotion, unable to move as he presses the words against my mouth, his hands soft and hesitant around my face and he says, “I swear on my life,” he says, “ I won’t disappoint you” and he kisses me
Kisses me right here, in the middle of everything, in front of everyone.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“I love you, Ella.' I whisper. 'I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart's yours. Please don't ever give it back to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“And I realize then, in a moment that terrifies me, that I want this, forever. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to build a future with her. I want to grow old with her.
I want to marry her.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Juliette Ferrars, one of the most feared, most lauded heroes of our known world, is crying over a dog.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“It was obvious, every time he put them in the same room. They were like magnets.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Forgive me. I know it all seems stupid now, but I don't want to take anything for granted anymore. Forgive me for hurting you. Forgive me for not trusting you. I took my pain out on you and I'm so sorry. I was selfish, and I hurt you, and I'm so sorry.

- Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“That you could love me at all seems like some kind of miracle."
She smiles, even as she shakes her head. "That's ridiculous," she says. "It's very, very easy to love you."

-Warner and Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Aaron Warner Anderson is the only emotional through line in my life that ever made sense. He's the only constant. The only steady, reliable heartbeat I've ever had.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“This," he says, touching the air between us, “is an exception to a very hard rule.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“You know —I feel everything when you touch me, love. I can feel your excitement. Your nervousness. Your pleasure. And I love it,' he says quietly. 'I love the way you respond to me. I love the way you want me. I feel it, when you lose yourself, the way you trust me when we're together. And I feel your love for me,' he whispers. 'I feel it in my bones.'
'I have loved you my entire life.' He looks up, looks at me with so much feeling it nearly breaks my heart.
'Ella,' he says, his voice rough with feeling. 'I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Right now all I want is this. I just want to be here. With you. Whatever comes next, we'll face it together.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“You've always known me, love. I've always known you. And I'm so-I'm so desperately in love with you-”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“I'm going to marry you today. And then I'm going to make love to you until you can't remember your name.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“So the two of you' —Ian tries to find his voice—'I mean, together—you two could basicaly—'
'Take over the world?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Aaron Anderson Warner is the only emotional through line in my life that ever made sense. He's the only constant, The only steady, reliable heartbeat I've ever had.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“You are perfect," he says. "Every inch of you. Perfect," he says again. "Don't hide from me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Warner told me he loved me, and in return I insulted him and lied to him and yelled at him and pushed him away. And when he had the chance to stand back and watch me die, he didn't.
He found a way to save my life.
With no demands. No expectations. Believing full well that I was in love with someone else, and that saving my life meant making me whole again only to give me back to another guy”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I love you and it isn't enough. I thought it would be enough and i was wrong. Because i can't. I can't even face you anymore-"
"Aaron-"
"Tell me it isn't true," he says."Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm blind. Tell me you love me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“You once accused me of not knowing the meaning of love," he says."But you were wrong, You fault me, perhaps for loving you too much." His eyes are so intense. So green. So cold. "But at least I do not deny my own heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“what i need is for you to be my friend-"
...
"I am afraid." he finally says, voice shaking. "That your friendship will be the end of me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“You know-I feel everything when you touch me , love. I can feel your excitement. Your nervousness. Your pleasure . And I love it." He says quietly."I love the way you respond to me. I love the way you want me. I feel it, when you lose yourself, the way you trust me when we're together. And I feel your love for me." he whispers. "I feel it in my bones."
he turns away
"I have loved you my entire life.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“Nicolas smiles at her. He says something else in Spanish-and by now it's obvious he's screwing with her-and I nearly kick the little shit in the face.
Warner gets to him before I do. He says something to Nicolas, something else I don't understand, but somehow this makes Juliette angrier
What a weird morning”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shadow Me

“Life is a bleak place, he whispers. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me