Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
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People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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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.
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A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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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
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
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I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
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Time goes on even when we do not.
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Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
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I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
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Hope is a pocket of possibility.
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It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
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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—
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.