Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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351. “I had never, ever touched someone and felt like this: like I was holding electricity inside of me.”

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352. “Who says you can’t be cute and kick ass at the same time?” Kenji winks at me. “I do it every day.”

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353. “I’ve always know who should be leading this resistance. Someone who’s got nothing left to lose and everything to gain. Someone no longer afraid of anyone? Should be me.”

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354. “Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.”

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355. “It didn’t matter how unaccented my English was. It didn’t matter that I told people, over and over again, that I was born here, in America, that English was my first language, that my cousins in Iran made fun of me for speaking mediocre Farsi with an American accent – it didn’t matter. Everyone assumed I was fresh off the boat from a foreign land.”

— Tahereh Mafi

356. “My body felt like it was now made entirely of nerves, like muscle and bone had been removed to make room for all this new emotion.”

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357. “My bones are like cubes of ice clinking together, chilling me to my core.”

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358. “You have disappointed me in so many ways,” he says, his voice deceptively soft. “Please don’t let this be another.”

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359. “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. Everyday it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of life. The Moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”

— Tahereh Mafi

360. “Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.”

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361. “I close my eyes and focus on breathing. ‘You can talk to me. Just don’t touch me.’ 7 seconds of silence join the conversation. ‘Maybe I want to touch you.”

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362. “I have officially, absolutely collapsed inside.”

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363. “Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.”

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364. “The sun had folded itself away and the moon was in no hurry to replace it.”

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365. “This doesn’t happen. People aren’t forgotten like this. Not abandoned like this.”

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366. “Castle’s easy grin dances into the room before he does.”

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367. “He raises his eyebrows. “At least I’m honest about being a liar.”

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368. “I’ve seen a lot of strange things in my life, but I never thought I’d have the pleasure of seeing Kishimoto shut his mouth for longer than five minutes.”

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369. “Everything seems to be catching up with me at once. My failures. My cowardice. My stupidity. Sometimes I’m just so tired of this life.”

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370. “Because these words I write down are the only proof I have that I’m still alive.”

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371. “Because it’s so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can’t even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark.”

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372. “Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age.”

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373. “The possibility of losing him is 100 years of solitude I don’t want to imagine.”

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374. “Laughter comes from living.”

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375. “Save your stupid for later!”

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376. “He’s such a social guy – and so popular around here – that sometimes I wonder where he got it from. In many ways he’s the exact opposite of me. He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.”

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377. “I don’t want to be anything for anyone but myself.”

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378. “Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.”

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379. “My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat.”

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380. “There is a little I allow anyone to discover about me. There’s even less I’m willing to share about myself. And one of the many things I’ve ever discussed, this is one of them. I like to take long baths.”

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381. “His lips are spelling secrets and my ears are spilling ink, staining my skin with his stories.”

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382. “I could live here, I think. Live where gravity does not know my name. Here I am unbound, untethered by the chains of this life. I am a different body, a different shell, and my weight is carried by the hands of friends. So many nights I’ve wished I could fall asleep under this sheet.”

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383. “I’m so thirsty I could inhale a waterfall.”

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384. “Be careful with that ,” I said, nodding at the paper, “because if you text me too much, you’ll have to marry me. It’s the rules in my religion.”

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385. “She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.”

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386. “In my less charitable moments I might call him a coward, but I get it. I’d opt out, too, if I could. I just don’t feel like I can. There’s still too much I’m willing to die for.”

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387. “Alice had hoped to be brave – she’d hoped she was stronger than her fears – but Alice was injured on the inside; and though her anger kept her upright, it couldn’t keep her steady, and from moment to moment Alice would slip.”

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388. “I have never claimed to live by any set of principles,” Warner says to me. “I’ve never claimed to be right, or good, or even justified in my actions. I have been forced to do terrible things in my life, love, and I am seeking neither your forgiveness nor your approval. Because I do not have the luxury of philosophizing over scruples when I’m forced to act on basic instinct every day.”

— Tahereh Mafi

389. “It’s strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I’m one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I’m like that. I encapsulate a world of nothing.”

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390. “His glassy green eyes glint in my direction.”

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391. “She is scared and broken, yes. But she is also angrey – and stunningly beautiful. I’m certain I’ve never seen such a beautiful creature in my life.”

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392. “And every moment in the world drops dead just then, because they woke up and realized they’d never be as important as this one.”

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393. “We’re going to find time for happiness. Because how can we stand against tyranny if we ourselves are filled with hate?”

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

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395. “I say something decidedly ungentlemanly under my breath.”

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396. “I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.”

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397. “Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree.”

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398. “Winston points at my face. His eyes are a little unfocused, and he has to blink a few times before saying, “I like you. It’s pretty nice you’re not dead.”

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399. “He’s smiling like someone’s strung the stars across his lips.”

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400. “It’s hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It’s screaming tea kettles and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze.”

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