Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “People are idiots, love. Their opinions are worthless.”

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104. “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.”

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

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106. “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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107. “I am not dramatic, okay? My presence just commands a certain kind of attention-.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “The world is bleeding.”

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110. “These words are vomit. This shaky pen is my esophagus. This sheet of paper is my porcelain bowl. “Why won’t you answer.”

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111. “We’re here, and it’s nighttime. So according to my calculations, we must not have done anything stupid.”

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112. “I like the way I feel about myself when I’m with him.” I say quietly. “Warner thinks I’m strong and smart and capable and he actually values my opinion. He makes me feel like his equal – like I can accomplish just as much as he can, and more. And if I do something incredible, he’s not even surprised. He expects it. He doesn’t treat me like I’m some fragile little girl who needs to be protected all the time.”

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113. “All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I’m unraveling in his embrace, I’m frayed and falling apart and I’m making no effort to control the tremors in my bones and he’s so hot his skin is so hot and I don’t even know where I am anymore.”

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114. “My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can’t bear to see it.”

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115. “I wish someone would remind me how to breathe.”

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116. “The tension is so thick it’s practically its own person, taking up a seat we don’t have to spare.”

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117. “Gone is the boy with the guns and the skeletons in his closet. These hands holding me have never held a weapon. These hands have never touched death. These hands are perfect and kind and tender.”

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118. “There are secrets everywhere. Answers nowhere.”

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119. “I’m wondering how many more mistakes I’ll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.”

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120. “Unfold your heart. Sharpen your ears. And never say no to the world when it asks you to dance.”

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121. “He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I’m 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion.”

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122. “Warner’s head is on my lap. His face is smooth and calm and peaceful in a way I’ve never seen it and I almost reach out to stroke his hair before I remember exactly how awkward this actually is.”

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123. “My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he’s kissing me and I’m oxygen and he’s dying to breathe.”

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124. “I don’t know how to hate you anymore. Even though I want to and I know I should but I just can’t.” – Juliette.”

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125. “How can you say that?” he said, and I heard his voice break. “How can you even think that? I want this more than I’ve ever wanted anything. I want everything with you,” he said. “I want all of it with you. I want you. I want this forever.”

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126. “His gaze lingers along the lines of my body, long enough to strike a match to the lighter fluid flowing in my veins. I ignite.”

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127. “He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process.”

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128. “My eyes are 2 windows cracked open by the chaos in this world.”

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129. “Hi” she whispers. It’s just one word but my heart is already racing.”

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130. “Warner was supposed to be dead. Warner was supposed to be dead because I was supposed to have shot him but no one supposed I’d need to know how to fire a gun so now I suppose he’s come to find me. He’s come to fight. For me.”

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131. “I need to break down these self-made walls.”

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132. “But I wanted so much more than her body.”

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133. “I love you,” I whisper. “I love you exactly as you are.” Warner.”

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134. “What do I feel like? Peanut butter?”

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135. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked –.”

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136. “The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”

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137. “I want to scream, sometimes, I want to collapse, sometimes, I want to die knowing that I’ve known what it was like to live with this kiss, this heart, this soft soft explosion that makes me feel like I’ve taken a sip of the sun...”

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138. “Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to fly.”

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139. “Hope is a pocket of possibility. I’m holding it in my hand.”

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140. “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles.”

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141. “I wish I could love you less.”

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142. “No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”

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143. “I’m wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.”

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144. “I’m wearing a dress the color of dead forests and old tin cans.”

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145. “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.”

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146. “The tilt of his head cracks gravity in half.”

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147. “I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me. Fear will learn to fear me.”

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148. “I want to be that friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into that private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend.-Waren.”

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149. “I’m here for you kid. That’s what friends are for.”

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150. “My heart is pounding so hard I’m surprised it’s not bleeding.”

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