Ella Sommers 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

“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

“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

“In the pain, I imagine bliss.
My thoughts are like wind, rushing, curling into the depths of myself, expelling, dispelling darkness.
I imagine love, I imagine wind, I imagine gold hair and green eyes and whispers, laughter
I imagine
Me
extraordinary, unbroken the girl who shocked herself by surviving, the girl who loved herself through learning, the girl who respected her skin, understood her worth, found her strength
s t r o n g
s t r o n g e r
strongest
Imagine me
master of my own universe
I am everything I ever dreamed of”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“This is, after all, what we're fighting for, isn't it?

A second chance at joy.

- Ella”
― 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

“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

“Ella,” I say. “You’re going to be my wife.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“If Ella were a house, she would be a grand home, one with many rooms and doors, all of which were easily unlocked, flung open. If I were a house, I would be haunted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“You want me,” he says softly, his hands moving up my back, “and it’s killing you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“He smiles. "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,"
~ Warner to Ella/Juliette”
― Tahareh Mafi

“Come on, bro, we have to get out of here— This isn’t a fair fight—”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“You go,” he says, clutching his side. “Go find Nazeera, and then find the other kids. I’ll be fine.”
-Aaron Warner

“You’re not going to be fine,” I hiss. “She’s going to kill you.”
-Kenji Kishimoto

“That’s fine, too.”
-Aaron Warner”
― Taherah Mafi

“Oh Ella...You've caused me a great deal of trouble this year. The paperwork alone.

- Evie Sommers”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“I do not have friends,” he says. “Why can’t you try?” He shakes his head. “Why? Why not give it a chance—” “Because I am afraid,” he finally says, voice shaking, “that your friendship would be the end of me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“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

“words, i think are such unpredictable creatures, no gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. swords may cut and kill but words will stab and stay burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh”
― Tahareh Mafi

“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