Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I looked out at the world around me and no longer saw nuance. I saw nothing but the potential for pain and the subsequent need to protect myself, constantly.”

— Tahereh Mafi

102. “Son of a motherless goat!”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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105. “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

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

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

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108. “You’re my bird,” I tell him. “You’re my bird and you’re going to help me fly away.”

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

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110. “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

111. “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

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

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114. “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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115. “He reminds me of someone I used to know. One sharp breath and I’m shocked back to reality. No more daydreams. “Why are you here?” I ask the cracks in the concrete wall. 14 cracks in 4 walls a thousand shades of gray.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

117. “Let them fuel the fire the keeps you striving. Idiots are highly flammable, love. Let them all burn in hell.”

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118. “I lived in a really dark place. I wasn’t safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn’t even tell the difference.”

— Tahereh Mafi

119. “The world is bleeding.”

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120. “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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121. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

122. “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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123. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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128. “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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129. “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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130. “I’m so thirsty I could inhale a waterfall.”

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

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132. “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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133. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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135. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

136. “If time stands still nothing can go wrong.”

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

— Tahereh Mafi

139. “Imagine me master of my own universe I am everything I ever dreamed of.”

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

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

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142. “How can you be ashamed of an attempt to be better?”

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

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

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

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

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

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150. “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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