“Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was the universal… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Look at me, is what I wanted to say. Talk to me every once in awhile. Find me a cure for these… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin" he… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it'll still find us. Death will show up wearing… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Brothers who hate each other. Brother who want to kill each other. And I'm caught in the middle. Good God, what has… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“And I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You've been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven't you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You know there's a different side of yourself you don't want to recognize, a side you don't want to see in the… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I want you to live up to your potential!" "Let me go," I say quietly. I don't want to be your creature.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's like spending 6 months just trying to inhale. It's like forgetting how to move your muscles and reliving every nauseous moment… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“We’re all too young to have to deal with this shit.” Kenji is breathing hard. “Don’t fool yourself, bro. No one should… — 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
