Tahereh Mafi famous quotes

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Lost Love #Heart #Hands

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Bird #Stronger #World

Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Relief #Torture

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Choices #Want

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. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Book #Character #Loss

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Sitting #Pages #Bookstores

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Book #Character #Paper

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Clouds #Raindrops #Heartbeat

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Moments #Easier

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Hands #Pockets #Possibility

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Book #Long #People

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Hope #Rain #Sky

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Coffee #Energy #Idiot

Why sleep when there are books to read.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Book #Sleep

And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Alive #Wonder

I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Mistake #Fall #Wonder

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Children

Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Fun #Liars #Thinking

My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Fall #Mouths #Parachutes

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Letters

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Book #Heartbreaking #Genius

In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Grieving #World #Littles

It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Rain #Kissing #Oxygen

Hope will break your heart all over again.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Heart #Break #Break Your Heart

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Mind #Locks #Emotion

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Quotation Marks #Upside Down #This Life

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. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Strong #Mean #Dark

You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Sleep #People #Want

I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Love #Fall #Curves

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Missing Someone #Oxygen #Dying

On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Pain #Eye #Order

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Stars #Kissing #Sky

I love you exactly as you are.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Best Love #Love You

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Heart #Monsters

Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Girl #Talking #Romance

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Gun #World #Barrels

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Lying #Eye #People

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Pockets #Needs #Caution

I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Believe #Men #World

His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#God #Eye #Heart

You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Alive #Deserve

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Thinking #Validation #People

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Beautiful #Eye #Thinking

We are synonyms but not the same.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Synonym

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Night #Men #Light

They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Animal #Engineering #Sky

I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Sunshine #Splits #Feels

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Character #Imagination #Letters

This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. 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 here. No one will ever hear me again.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Taken #Voice #Broken

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Years #Names #Lips

Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
-- Tahereh Mafi

#Firsts #Sometimes