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

— Tahereh Mafi

403. “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

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. “You’re a total catch.” “I know, right? I keep trying to tell people.”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

407. “How can I hate his anger,” he says, “when I know so well where it comes from?”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— 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. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

416. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

421. “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

422. “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

423. “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

424. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

430. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

432. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

434. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

437. “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

438. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

441. “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

442. “I worry that my sadness will be interpreted as an endorsement of his choices – of his very existence – and in this matter I don’t want to be misunderstood, so I cannot admit that I grieve him, that I care at all for the loss of this monstrous man who raised me. And in the absence of healthy action I remain frozen, a sentient stone in the wake of my father’s death.”

— Tahereh Mafi

443. “I’ve never read anything like this before. I’ve never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.”

— Tahereh Mafi

444. “My eyes are 2 professional pickpockets, stealing everything to store away in my mind.”

— Tahereh Mafi

445. “I want to fall asleep to the sound of his heart beating in the atmosphere.”

— 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. “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

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Tahereh Mafi