Top 500 Tahereh Mafi Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “There are wire cutters carving holes in my heart.”

— Tahereh Mafi

402. “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

403. “I wonder if I’m just a punctured shadow of the person I was before.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

405. “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

406. “We breathe when we’re wrong, we breathe when we’re right, we breathe even as we slip off the ledge toward an early grave. It cannot be undone. So I breathe.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

408. “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

409. “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

410. “But it’s my wedding day,” she says. “And I have nothing to wear.” “You’re right.” I kiss the top of her head. “I’m going to kill him.”

— Tahereh Mafi

411. “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

412. “He destroyed her dress the night before our wedding. Like a monster. I’m going to murder him.”

— Tahereh Mafi

413. “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

414. “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.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

416. “He still has the most unusually blue eyes I’ve ever seen. Dark and deep and drenched in passion. I always wondered what it’d be like to see the world through such a beautiful lens. I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

418. “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

419. “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

420. “My stomach is a flimsy crepe, my heart a raging woodpecker, my blood a river of anxiety.”

— Tahereh Mafi

421. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

424. “I follow his eyes to the pane of glass separating us from reality and I wait for his lips to part; I wait to listen to him speak. And then I try to pay attention as his words bounce around in the haze of my head, fogging my senses, misting my eyes, clouding my concentration.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

426. “You’ve been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven’t you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to believe it. You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You though if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer – you thought the world would change its mind about you. You blamed yourself for everything.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

428. “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

429. “I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he’s forced into my head.”

— Tahereh Mafi

430. “I’m so scared that if I move even an inch, my body will snap in half and everyone will see that my insides are made up of nothing but all the tears I’m swallowing back right now.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

433. “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

434. “10,000 tiny particles shatter between us.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

436. “You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You thought if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer -you thought the world would change its mind about you.”

— Tahereh Mafi

437. “Let go of me,” I scream, but, oh, only in my imagination because my lips are finished working and my heart has just expired and my mind has gone to hell for the day and my eyes my eyes I think they’re bleeding...”

— Tahereh Mafi

438. “Uh, yeah – how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

440. “If only my emotions would understand the importance of excellent timing.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

444. “His smile is a vat of acid seeping into my skin.”

— Tahereh Mafi

445. “I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”

— Tahereh Mafi

446. “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

447. “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

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. “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