Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “People are so preoccupied with making sense despite it being the most uninteresting thing to manufacture.” He shook his head. “Making magic,” he said, “is far more interesting than making sense.”

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452. “I’m trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat.”

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453. “10,000 tiny particles shatter between us.”

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454. “You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You thought if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer -you thought the world would change its mind about you.”

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455. “Uh, yeah – how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.”

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456. “If only my emotions would understand the importance of excellent timing.”

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457. “My feelings were still inarticulate, comprising little more than tears and expletives.”

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458. “He’s standing at the front door, hands shoved casually in his pockets, no fewer than six different guns pointed at his face.”

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459. “My throat is a reptile, covered in scales.”

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460. “His smile is a vat of acid seeping into my skin.”

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461. “I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”

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462. “My eyes flick up to the pane of glass punched into the wall. Pinks and reds filter into the room and I know it’s the start of a new beginning. The start of the same end. Another day.”

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463. “He has that kind of face. The kind of face that makes you forget where you are, who you are, what you might’ve been about to do or say. I’ve missed him so much. Missed his eyes.”

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464. “But now Warner’s eyes are moving, studying me. He looks at me with such intensity I wonder if he’s even aware he’s doing it. I wonder if he knows that when he looks at me like that I can feel it as acutely as if his bare skin were pressed against my own, that it does things to me when he looks at me like that and it makes me crazy.”

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465. “Take me back,” I tell him, shifting a little. The world tilts and steadies all at once. “Alert the medics and have a bed prepared for our arrival. In the meantime, elevate my arm and continue applying direct pressure to the wound. The bullet has broken or fractured something, and this will require surgery.”

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466. “Now, I’ll be on my way, thank you very much. It was awful talking to you.”

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467. “But one day, she swore, she’d breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.”

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468. “Right now I feel certain that my imagination is much more dangerous than any of his truths.”

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469. “You,” he says to me, his hands gripping me tighter now, “are one of the bravest, strongest people I’ve ever met. You have the best heart, the best intentions – ” He stops. Takes a tight, shaky breath. “You’re the best person I’ve ever known,” he says to me. “You’ve been through the worst possible experiences and you survived with your humanity still intact. How the hell,” he says, his voice breaking now, “am I supposed to let go of you? How can I walk away from you?”

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470. “I want to be the bird that flies away.”

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471. “These words are vomit.”

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472. “He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.”

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473. “Still, we took what we could get. We were wrapped up in each other, feeling happy and sad all at once, pretty much all the time.”

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474. “Oliver felt much more than sorry for Alice. His heart had grown ten sizes since he’d met her, and the hours he’d lost her had nearly broken him.”

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475. “Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It’s an epidemic.”

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476. “I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I’ve never smelled like anything before.”

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477. “Maybe it was enough to have learned that love was the unexpected weapon, that it was the knife I’d needed to cut through the Kevlar I wore every day.”

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478. “I was a coward who needed someone to tell me i was worth something before i took any steps to save myself.”

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479. “Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don’t know I even know what love is.”

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480. “I hate myself for enjoying it. I.”

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481. “How very important and infuriating it is to have to remind a smart person not to be so stupid as to give up on themselves.”

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482. “I felt then, in that moment, the insubstantial weight of my sixteen years in a way I’d never felt before. I had no control here. No power. I didn’t even have my driver’s license. I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have my own bank account. There was nothing I could do. Nothing I could do to help, to make this better. I had no connections in the world, no voice anyone would listen to. I felt at once everything, everything, and nothing at all.”

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483. “My body has gotten so used to hunger that I don’t know how to recognize it anymore.”

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484. “Men are always so baffled by women’s clothing. So many opinions about a body that does not belong to them. Cover up, don’t cover up – no one can seem to decide.”

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485. “I am a spectacle, an anomaly even among the anomalies.”

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486. “I’m going to marry you today. And then I’m going to make love to you until you can’t remember your name.”

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487. “You’ve got a sexy voice. Makes everything sound naughty.”

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488. “Alice had a heart of silk and a spine of steel;.”

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489. “It was so hard for Ocean to stomach that the world was filled with such awful people. I tried to tell him that the bigots and the racists had always been there, and he said he’d honestly never seen them like this, that he never thought they could be like this, and I said yes, I know. I said that’s how privilege works.”

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490. “It’s just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It’s a feather-light brush of his mouth against my skin in a place I can’t quite see. It’s my mind speaking in a thousand different languages I don’t understand.”

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491. “This, I think, is the way to die. I could drown in this moment and I’d never regret it. I could catch fire from this kiss and happily turn to ash. I could live here, die here, right here, against his hips, his lips. In the emotion in his eyes as he sinks into me, his heartbeats indistinguishable from mine. This. Forever. This.”

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492. “I have never claimed to live by any set of principles,” Warner says to me. “I’ve never claimed to be right, or good, or even justified in my actions. I have been forced to do terrible things in my life, love, and I am seeking neither your forgiveness nor your approval. Because I do not have the luxury of philosophizing over scruples when I’m forced to act on basic instinct every day.”

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493. “The possibility of losing him is 100 years of solitude I don’t want to imagine.”

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494. “Because it’s so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can’t even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark.”

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495. “Love, it turned out, could both hurt and heal.”

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496. “Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you’re there, you’re lost forever.”

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497. “You’ve been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven’t you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to believe it. You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You though if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer – you thought the world would change its mind about you. You blamed yourself for everything.”

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498. “Laughter comes from living.”

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499. “Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.”

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500. “That seems awfully convenient. – James Kent.”

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