Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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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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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
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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.
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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.
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The moon is a loyal companion.
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I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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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 weak, not our actions.
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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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.
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We are synonyms but not the same.
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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Why sleep when there are books to read.
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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
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Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
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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.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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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.
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I can do anything I want.
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I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.