“Have faith in yourself. If you don't believe you can do it, you won't.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Ich will vertrauen können, doch die Vorstellung macht mich panisch.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The human imagination is often disastrous when left to its own devices.” — Tahereh Mafi Creativity Copy Share Image
“He won’t stop looking at me. Smiling at me. Torturing me with his eyes. This” — Tahereh Mafi Smiling Copy Share Image
“Do you deny these accusations, soldier?” Fletcher’s nostrils flare. His jaw tenses. His voice cracks when he speaks. “No, sir.” Warner” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“You can move things with your mind?” I don’t even know where I found the words to speak.” — Tahereh Mafi Mind Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to… — Tahereh Mafi Unkindness Copy Share Image
“It’s strange to have to exert energy to move my lips to form words necessary to explain my actions.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's been me and you against the world forever," he says. "It's always been that way.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up, it's… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Shit, shit.” He curls his fingers into a tight fist and clenches his jaw. He’s burned his hand. I” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I hate the lackadaisical ennui of a sun too preoccupied with itself to notice the infinite hours we spend in its presence.” — Tahereh Mafi Lackadaisical 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky.… — Tahereh Mafi Juliette-ferrars Copy Share Image
“You’ll be fine. You didn’t even break anything. You messed up your knuckles and your brain freaked out a little and basically… — Tahereh Mafi Vacation Copy Share Image
“She's trying so hard to be okay --- to make it all this shit okay --- but sometimes it's like the world… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I press my palm to the small pane of glass and feel the cold clasp my hand in a familiar embrace. We… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming tea kettles and raging steam engines and wanting to take your… — Tahereh Mafi Humid Copy Share Image
“It's just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It's a feather-light brush of his mouth against my… — Tahereh Mafi Different languages Copy Share Image
“One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“He whispers, "You have no idea how much I've thought about you. How many times I've dreamt"-he takes a tight breath- "how… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the way I looked at her, the… — Tahereh Mafi Destroy-me Copy Share Image
“Is this really happening?" I hear him whisper. "What?" I blink, try to stay awake. "You feel so real," he says. "You… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its… — Tahereh Mafi Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“He's looking so deeply into my eyes that I'm surprised I haven't buckled under the intensity and I realize then, right in… — Tahereh Mafi Intense Copy Share Image
“I don't even know what this is, Kenji." I meet his eyes. "That's the problem. I don't know ho to explain it,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Everything I want to say and everything I've wished to say begins to take shape, falling to the floor and scrambling upright.… — Tahereh Mafi Building walls Copy Share Image
“There aren’t many animals left, but I’ve heard stories of birds that fly.” — Tahereh Mafi Animals Copy Share Image
“More people have died at the end of a loaded gun than from an empty stomach.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Esta vez no tengo miedo. Esta vez se quien soy. Esta vez he tomado la decisión correcta.” — Tahereh Mafi Amor Copy Share Image
“Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who… — Tahereh Mafi Friend 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 Absence Copy Share Image
“And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be… — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner Copy Share Image
