I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.

— Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi Quotes

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

— Tahereh Mafi

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.

— Tahereh Mafi

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.

— Tahereh Mafi

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

— Tahereh Mafi

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

— Tahereh Mafi

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.

— Tahereh Mafi

In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

— Tahereh Mafi

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 –.

— Tahereh Mafi

I love you exactly as you are.

— Tahereh Mafi

And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.

— Tahereh Mafi

Why sleep when there are books to read.

— Tahereh Mafi

Hope can make people do terrible things.

— Tahereh Mafi

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.

— Tahereh Mafi

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.

— Tahereh Mafi

We are synonyms but not the same.

— Tahereh Mafi

People can think whatever they like. I don’t desire their validation.

— Tahereh Mafi

Hope will break your heart all over again.

— Tahereh Mafi

Insane for your sweet, sweet love!

— Tahereh Mafi

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.

— Tahereh Mafi
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