Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “He destroyed her dress the night before our wedding. Like a monster. I’m going to murder him.”

— Tahereh Mafi

402. “Having a cellmate might be okay. Talking to a real human being might make things easier. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth. I practice all day. I’m surprised I remember how to speak.”

— Tahereh Mafi

403. “Alice dropped her head, because sadness had left hinges in her bones.”

— Tahereh Mafi

404. “Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I’m exhausting him. I’m making him sick and I’m weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he’s using his gift to control what I might do –.”

— Tahereh Mafi

405. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

406. “That this isn’t just a factory. It’s a slaughterhouse. I.”

— Tahereh Mafi

407. “His lips are so close to my ear I’m water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down.”

— Tahereh Mafi

408. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

409. “Because I was an idiot for thinking things could be different. For thinking you were a fluke. For thinking my life could ever be better than it was, that I could ever be better than I was.”

— Tahereh Mafi

410. “I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.”

— Tahereh Mafi

411. “His perfect face. His perfect body. His eyes as hard and beautiful as frozen gemstones. He repulses me. I want his exterior to match his broken black interior. I want to cripple his cockiness with the palm of my hand.”

— Tahereh Mafi

412. “It’s raining. The world is weeping at our feet in anticipation of what we’re about to do.”

— Tahereh Mafi

413. “Everything I was, everything I did, everything I am, was forged from the twins of their action and inaction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

414. “It’s incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.”

— Tahereh Mafi

415. “I’ve been here before, I tell myself. I’ve been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I’ve been here before and I survived. I can get through this.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

417. “Men with guns have never put me at ease no matter how many times they promised they were killing for good reason.”

— Tahereh Mafi

418. “They think I’m a doll they can dress up and twist into prostration. But.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

420. “But here, in the silent explosion of my heart, was a quiet that felt familiar.”

— Tahereh Mafi

421. “In the steady thrum that accompanies quiet, my mind is unkind to me. I think too much. I feel, perhaps, far more than I should. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that my goal in life is to outrun my mind, my memories.”

— Tahereh Mafi

422. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

424. “He stares until I’m blushing and I decide I hate him a little...”

— Tahereh Mafi

425. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

426. “She felt most comfortable in nature, where things weren’t required to look like the other in order to live together peacefully.”

— Tahereh Mafi

427. “Mortification. I’m draped in it. Painted in it. Buried in it.”

— Tahereh Mafi

428. “Years of practice have taught me to bury my emotions as a reflex – especially in his presence – and it takes a few seconds for the feelings to emerge. They form slowly, infinite hands reaching up from infinite graves to fan the ancient rage I’ve never really allowed myself to touch.”

— Tahereh Mafi

429. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

430. “My throat is a reptile, covered in scales.”

— Tahereh Mafi

431. “So I lie here, marinating in a sorrow I can never speak of, while regret consumes my heart.”

— Tahereh Mafi

432. “He’s standing at the front door, hands shoved casually in his pockets, no fewer than six different guns pointed at his face.”

— Tahereh Mafi

433. “My eyes flick up to the pane of glass punched into the wall. Pinks and reds filter into the room and I know it’s the start of a new beginning. The start of the same end. Another day.”

— Tahereh Mafi

434. “We’re so good at masking our hunger until the knocks at the door cripple our dignity.”

— Tahereh Mafi

435. “And then she took it off, slipped it on my index finger, and said, ‘If you hide your heart, he will never be able to take it from you.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

437. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

438. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

439. “They say our world used to be green. Our clouds used to be white. Our sun was always the right kind of light.”

— Tahereh Mafi

440. “I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

441. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

442. “It’s only when he finds my face that he meets my gaze; I step into the sea of blue in his eyes, dive right in and drown.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

445. “My organs are dead, my bones are cracked, my skin is a sieve, punctured by pins and needles of pain.”

— Tahereh Mafi

446. “There is a distinct flavor of panic lodged somewhere underneath my tongue and I’m fighting to remember where it came from.”

— Tahereh Mafi

447. “Words, will live as long as people can remember them.”

— Tahereh Mafi

448. “Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don’t know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner.”

— Tahereh Mafi

449. “I do know that I don’t want to wake him. We were up very late last night.”

— Tahereh Mafi

450. “I’m trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat.”

— Tahereh Mafi