“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 a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

TEASER TUESDAY: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

It's Teaser Tuesday!! YAY!! WOOOOOO!! HUZZAH!!!!!!!

Teaser Tuesday's is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading and asks you to :

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3 . Share 2 "teaser" sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the "teaser".

4. Please avoid spoilers!


Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Summary from goodreads.com


Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.




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Ok So I am absolutely in love with the writing style of this book...so you ask me to pick one quote? No that just wont do...so what I do instead (such a freak) is go onto goodreads and put below every quote I could find without a spoiler! Hope you enjoy them and it makes you want to READ THIS BOOK because you must!

enjoy:

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"I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.
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"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.

I am a raindrop.

My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab."
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"You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him."
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"I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me."              
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"My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds."
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"Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life."              
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"My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
I think I already love this kid."              
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"Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach."
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"My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything away in my mind. I lose track of the minutes we trample over."
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"Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles"
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"1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does."    
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 "Blondie said they destroyed my clothes." "Blondie?" Blond man is offended."
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Do you love this book too? Now you want to read it because of these teasers? Have a random comment? Tell me below! (also leave your own teasers!)


  





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2 comments:

  1. I love your teasers! I love this book! It's probably one of my favorite books from 2011. Happy reading!

    Teaser Tuesday

    Lisa @ Shatterbooks

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    1. I agree, it' truly an amazing (I can't stop saying good things about it!) book....a review to come!

      Love your teasers too!

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