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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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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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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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.
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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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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 feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
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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 moon is a loyal companion.
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Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
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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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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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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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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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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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Why sleep when there are books to read.
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I can do anything I want.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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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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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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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.