Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “The tilt of his head cracks gravity in half.”

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “I wondered, for the very first time, if maybe I was doing this whole thing wrong. If maybe I’d allowed myself to be blinded by my own anger to the exclusion of all else. If maybe, just maybe, I’d been so determined not to be stereotyped that I’d begun to stereotype everyone around me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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

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158. “Juliette.” I close my eyes. He says, “I don’t want you to call me Warner anymore.” I open my eyes. “I want you to know me,” he says, breathless, his fingers pushing a stray strand of hair away from my face. “I don’t want to be Warner with you,” he says. “I want it to be different now. I want you to call me Aaron.”

— Tahereh Mafi

159. “If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”

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160. “I hate the lackadaisical ennui of a sun too preoccupied with itself to notice the infinite hours we spend in its presence.”

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161. “My eyes break open. Two shattered windows filling my mouth with glass.”

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162. “So you’re exactly like a Venus flytrap. You reel ‘em in. Clamp ‘em down. Eat ‘em up.” I didn’t respond. “Mmmmm,” he said. “You’re like a sexy super scary plant.” I close my eyes. Covered my mouth in horror. “Why is that so wrong?” he said then bent down to meet my gaze. Tugged on a lock of my hair to get me to look up. “Why does this have to be so horrible? Why can’t you see how awesome this is?”

— Tahereh Mafi

163. “Find me a cure for these tears, I’d really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”

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164. “A handful of letters doesn’t always make a word, love.”

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165. “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence.”

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166. “Ocean had given me hope. He’d made me believe in people again. His sincerity had rubbed me raw, had peeled back the stubborn layers of anger I’d lived in for so long. Ocean made me want to give the world a second chance.”

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167. “Just because I’m going to hell doesn’t mean you’ll ever deserve her.”

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168. “I’m nineteen years old,” he clarifies. “I’m a fairly impressive specimen for my age, I know.”

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169. “We have lost our humanity.”

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170. “My eyes open to 2 eyes 2 lips 2 ears 2 eyebrows. I stifle my scream my urgency to run the crippling horror gripping my limbs. “You’re a b-b-b-b – ”“And you’re a girl.”

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171. “I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing- to feel like you would never excape the box people had put you in.”

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172. “His eyes are the perfect shade of cobalt, blue like a blossoming bruise, clear and deep and decided.”

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173. “Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we grow, settling deep into our souls.”

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174. “It’s like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what’s the point of screaming if you’ll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in her. No one will ever hear me again.”

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175. “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.”

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176. “Very well then, Ms. Ferrars. Good luck, and godspeed. Our world is in your hands.”

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177. “If you hide your heart, he will never be able to take it from you.”

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178. “I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

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179. “I didn’t want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgement, and its cold, resentful eyes. I saw it all around me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

180. “Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never ever sleeps, is what I don’t tell him.”

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181. “His skin is flawless, unblemished, his jawline sharp and strong. His eyes are the palest shade of emerald I’ve ever seen. He’s beautiful. His crooked smile is calculated evil.”

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182. “The world tried to crush you,” I say, gently now, “and you refused to be shattered.”

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183. “Hanging out with you has made me weird, J. All I do is sit around thinking about my feelings these days. Thanks for that.”

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184. “Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one.”

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185. “Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.”

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186. “The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.”

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187. “Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.”

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188. “I would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her.”

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189. “I don’t have the time, the energy, or the interest to deal with your problems.”

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190. “It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirrors, all along.”

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191. “And even when you’re ready to let go. When you’re ready to break free. When you’re ready to be brand-new. Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can’t find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you’re not enough never enough never ever enough. Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes.”

— Tahereh Mafi

192. “I don’t think you’re crazy,” I say. “And I don’t think you’re a psychopath. I don’t think you’re a heartless murderer. I don’t care what anyone else says about you. I think you’re a good person.”

— Tahereh Mafi

193. “I have a great fear of drowning in the ocean of my own silence.”

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194. “Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it’s the only story you knew how to tell.”

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195. “I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.”

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196. “I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture and suffering is gone, until he’s given a chance to live the kind of life where no one can wound him this deeply ever again.”

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197. “You know, you have a really strange way of telling me you’re attracted to me.”

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198. “You are not normal. You never have been, and you never will be. Embrace who you are.”

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199. “Death would be a welcome release from these earthly joys I’ve known.”

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200. “I only know now that the scientists are wrong. The world is flat. I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I’ve been trying to hold on for 17 years. I’ve been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it’s nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”

— Tahereh Mafi