Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”

— Tahereh Mafi

52. “Good morning sweetheart.”

— Tahereh Mafi

53. “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

54. “If it were nothing but sexual attraction I’m sure I would not suffer such unbearable humiliation. But I wanted so much more than her body.”

— Tahereh Mafi

55. “I love you exactly as you are.”

— Tahereh Mafi

56. “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

57. “Because I want her. Now. Here. Everywhere. I want nothing between us. I want her clothes off and the lights on and I want to study her. I want to unzip her out of this dress and take my time with every inch of her.”

— Tahereh Mafi

58. “I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.”

— Tahereh Mafi

59. “People can think whatever they like. I don’t desire their validation.”

— Tahereh Mafi

60. “I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I’ve fallen for her. And I’ve fallen. So hard. I’ve hit the ground.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

62. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

64. “I love you, Ella.′ I whisper. ‘I will love you for the rest of my life. My heart’s yours. Please don’t ever give it back to me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

67. “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

68. “Stop touching me with your eyes.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

70. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

72. “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

73. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

74. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

76. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

77. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

79. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

81. “Such unfortunate language. Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary.”

— Tahereh Mafi

82. “To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”

— Tahereh Mafi

83. “The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn’t matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions – Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

88. “His eyes darken, deaden, all of a sudden. He looks toward the wall. “Don’t do that,” he says. “Don’t ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I’ve laid myself bare for you and all it’s gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don’t torture me,” he says, meeting my eyes again. “It’s a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

89. “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

90. “Aaron Warner Anderson is the only emotional through line in my life that ever made sense. He’s the only constant. The only steady, reliable heartbeat I’ve ever had.”

— Tahereh Mafi

91. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

93. “You are magnificent. You are extraordinary.”

— Tahereh Mafi

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

97. “Son of a motherless goat!”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi