Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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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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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing 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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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
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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.
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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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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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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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We are synonyms but not the same.
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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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Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
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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 am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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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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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
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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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I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.
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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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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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Why sleep when there are books to read.