Shatter Me (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Juliette Ferrars: Locked up in an insane asylum, Juliette must convince herself daily that she's not a monster, even though everyone else thinks so. Even her own parents don't want her. Her touch is lethal
• Adam Kent: A soldier in the army (Works for Warner), and an old almost friend of Juliette's; he is in charge of her.
• Warner: A power hungry man, who will stop at nothing to control Juliette and her ability. He is nineteen years old and the son of the leader of the Reestablishment.
• Kenji: A soldier in Warner's army. He is a good friend of Adam's.
• James: Adam's younger brother. 10 years old.
• Castle: Leader of The Omega Point, a band of people fighting against The Reastablishment
• Jenkins: Soldier in the Reestablishment who Warner forces Juliette to touch in order to demonstrate her powers.
• Brendan: Someone from Omega Point
• Sara: Twin; healer for the Omega Point group.
• Blondie Winston: Member of the Omega Point group.
• Sonya: Twin; healer for the Omega Point group.
• Fletcher: Add a description of this character.
• Benny

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• “"Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds. I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hands tick tick tick their final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath. I've been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind."”

• “You think that i dont have a heart? You think I don't Feel? You think that just because I CAN inflict pain, that I should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster like everyone else. You don't understand me at all.... I don't want this. I don't want this life. I don't want to be anything for anyone but myself. I want to make my own choices.”

  Juliette

• “"His smile is laced with dynamite. 'Go to sleep.''Go to Hell.'He works his jaw. Walks to the door. 'I'm working on it.'"”

  Juliette & Warner

• “"God Juliette, I'd follow you anywhere. You're the only good thing left in this world."”

  Adam Kent

• “"Laughter comes from living. I've never really been alive before."”

  Juliette

• “"I lean into his ear. 'Touch me.'And he's nearly undone."”

  Juliette

• “"Don't go your touch is the only thing keeping me from losing my mind."”

  Adam Kent

• “"Rumors are more likely to kill you than I am."”

  Juliette

• “"'Juliette,' he says. 1 breath. 1 kiss. 10 fingers teasing my skin."”

  Adam

• “Summer is like a slow-cooker bringing everything in the world to a boil 1 degree at a time”

  Juliette's narration

• “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart”

  Juliette

• “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe”

• “Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.””

• “I always wonder about raindrops.I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.”

• “Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.””

• “My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds”

• “Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.”

• “Hope is a pocket of possibilities.”

  Juliette

• “I'd recognize your eyes anywhere.”

  Juliette

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• “Go to hell.” He works his jaw. Walks to the door. “I’m working on it.”

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• I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath. I’ve been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind.

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• Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I’m so delirious I actually dare to believe it.

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• He’s a hot bath, a short breath, 5 days of summer pressed into 5 fingers writing stories on my body.

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• Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don’t tell him. I’ll never be okay.

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• “Laughter comes from living.” I shrug, try to sound indifferent. “I’ve never really been alive before.”

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• “H-how could you possibly care about someone . . . like me?” I’m barely breathing, nervous and petrified but somehow staring at his lips, studying the shape, counting the drops of water tumbling over the hills and valleys of his mouth. “Because I’m in love with you.”

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• He’s running his hands down my body running his eyes across my face running laps with his heart and I’m running marathons with my mind.

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• The Reestablishment: After the downfall of society as we know it, the Reestablishment took it upon themselves to remake society in a more sustainable way.

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Followed by Unravel Me.

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1. Tahereh Mafi (Author)

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Refferences to sex and some foul language...not exactally a clean read. Also has a murderous army with a psycho leader trying to get a girl to torture people with her powers.

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• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Social Issues

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