Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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51. “People can think whatever they like. I don’t desire their validation.”

— Tahereh Mafi

52. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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

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56. “I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and revenge I think has never looked so sweet.”

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57. “Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”

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

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59. “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

60. “Good morning sweetheart.”

— Tahereh Mafi

61. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

62. “The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is.”

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63. “And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”

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64. “One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist. One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide. One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear. A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.”

— Tahereh Mafi

65. “Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

— Tahereh Mafi

66. “His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that.”

— Tahereh Mafi

67. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

68. “People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.”

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69. “I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. “There are secrets in here,” I say. “I want them out.” He tries to bite my finger. I steal it back.”

— Tahereh Mafi

70. “I’m the bird and I’m flying away.”

— Tahereh Mafi

71. “Beautiful. He’s so beautiful. I must be insane.”

— Tahereh Mafi

72. “I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.”

— Tahereh Mafi

73. “Insane for your sweet, sweet love!”

— Tahereh Mafi

74. “Idiots are highly flammable, love. Let them all burn in hell.”

— Tahereh Mafi

75. “Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me; I wanted her to talk to me. And I felt it then: this strange, inexplicable sense that she might be the only person in the world I could really care about.”

— Tahereh Mafi

76. “I’ve been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”

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77. “I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. I am a whisper that never was.”

— Tahereh Mafi

78. “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. They.”

— Tahereh Mafi

79. “The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone. H e l l i s e m p t y a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e I kiss my way across the words. Kissing away the devils. Kissing away the pain.”

— Tahereh Mafi

80. “Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won’t move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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82. “This was my safe space; my only escape from the world.”

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83. “He looks up, so slowly, gold lashes lifting to reveal more sadness and beauty that I’ve ever seen in the same moment. I didn’t know a person could convey so much with just one look. There’s extraordinary pain in him. Extraordinary passion.”

— Tahereh Mafi

84. “The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and red and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window.”

— Tahereh Mafi

85. “Son of a motherless goat!”

— Tahereh Mafi

86. “I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.”

— Tahereh Mafi

87. “She’d decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.”

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88. “Stop touching me with your eyes.”

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89. “Warner. A white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. A fair – skinned boy with gold hair, the leader of Sector 45. It was always him. All along. The link.”

— Tahereh Mafi

90. “I want to convince you to design a smile just for me.”

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91. “You are magnificent. You are extraordinary.”

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92. “Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together.”

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93. “The soldiers stomp stomp stomp through the rain, crushing leaves and fallen snow under their feet. Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.”

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94. “We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it’ll still find us. Death will show up wearing an invisible cloak and it will wave a magic wand and whisk us away when we least expect it.”

— Tahereh Mafi

95. “Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.”

— Tahereh Mafi

96. “I don’t want you to be repulsed by me.”

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97. “I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it.”

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98. “I’d really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.”

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99. “I love you, ” he says, his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough. I thought it would be enough and I was wrong. I thought I could fight for you and I was wrong. Because I can’t. I can’t even face you anymore – ” “ Aaron – ” “ Tell me it isn’t true, ” he says. “ Tell me I’m wrong. Tell me I’m blind. Tell me you love me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

100. “The world is bleeding.”

— Tahereh Mafi