Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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2. “Moving forward is the only way to survive.”

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3. “Time goes on even when we do not.”

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4. “Te amo, mi amor por ti nunca ha sido una mentira.”

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5. “And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.”

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6. “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

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7. “In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”

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8. “I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”

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9. “I want you, I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you.”

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10. “Come back to life, love. I’ll be here when you wake up.”

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11. “I’m oxygen and he’s dying to breathe.”

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

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13. “Aaron Warner Anderson, chief commander and regent of Sector 45, son of the supreme commander of The Reestablishment. He has a soft spot for fashion.”

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14. “You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.”

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

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16. “I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.”

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17. “Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes.”

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18. “Love is a heartless bastard.”

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19. “Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.”

— Tahereh Mafi

20. “That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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21. “Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.”

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22. “Hope will break your heart all over again.”

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23. “I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain.”

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24. “There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It will fly.”

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25. “Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.”

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

— Tahereh Mafi

27. “My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.”

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28. “There’s very little I wouldn’t do for you.”

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29. “Hope can make people do terrible things.”

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30. “I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.”

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31. “This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.”

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32. “I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it’ll be my choice.”

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33. “The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.”

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34. “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,” he says. “The one who will memorise 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 your body, Juliette-.”

— Tahereh Mafi

35. “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.”

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36. “You can’t blame yourself for any of this. It’s not your fault. None of it is your fault. You have to be kinder to yourself. You’ve already been through so much.”

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37. “It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”

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38. “Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.”

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

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41. “I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

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42. “I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.”

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43. “Because the more I discover about him, the fewer excuses I have to push him away. He’s unraveling before me, becoming something entirely different; terrifying me in a way I never could’ve expected.”

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44. “He looks away. And he smiles. Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don’t understand what’s happening to me. I don’t know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on. I don’t know why my heart is losing its mind.”

— Tahereh Mafi

45. “Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy.”

— Tahereh Mafi

46. “We are synonyms but not the same.”

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47. “He’s standing right in front of me and I miss him like I haven’t seen him in years.”

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48. “Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there’s something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skins. It reminds us that we’ve been marked by the world, that we’re still alive. That we’ll never forget.”

— Tahereh Mafi

49. “My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.”

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50. “I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.”

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