“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“...dying and somehow being brought back to life in the same moment, the same breath.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But one day, she swore, she'd breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I remember you every day forever in every single broken moment of my life.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because I was an idiot for thinking things could be different. For thinking you were a fluke. For thinking my life could… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Look at me, is what I wanted to say to you. Talk to me every once in a while. Find me a… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I didn't know much about the world, but there was something about you I was immediately drawn to. It's like I just… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I like when he tells me that he likes the way I feel because it goes against what I've heard my entire… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because somehow, even with the encumbrance of such an unfortunate and isolating occupation, she walked through darkness with elegance, navigating the corridors… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The life I know now is the only one that matters. The suffocation, the luxury, the sleepless nights, and the dead bodies.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He’s kissing me like the world is rolling right off a cliff, like he’s trying to hang on and he’s decided to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be. I press my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Life is like a cloud. It comes in a million shapes and sizes and it offers no guarantees, no sympathies for the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to do anything at all to die. We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We're running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes you see yourself—you see yourself the way you could be—the way you might be if things were different. And if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“What I really want to say is who the hell are you and who are you to decide who gets to die.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I couldn't scream because my lungs were… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to kill a man if someone else deems him unfit to live. What I really want to say is who… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We’re running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want to dive into his being, experience him with all 5 senses, drown in the waves of wonder enveloping my existence.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Incredible. He left me bleeding all over his living floor. What a nice little present for his son to clean up. What… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“...I kept thinking about how Id spent my entire life being a coward, and how it got me nowhere. And I knew… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“He's too much. Everything about him is too much. His emotions, his actions, his anger, his aggression. His love.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“I want you, I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I’ve fallen for her. And I’ve fallen. So hard. I’ve hit the ground.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
“That’s when I understand. Of course she’s not okay. Of course she didn’t get any sleep last night. Last night she almost killed one… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share
