Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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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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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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We are synonyms but not the same.
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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
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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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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’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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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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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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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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Why sleep when there are books to read.
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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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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 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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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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The moon is a loyal companion.
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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.