“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.” — 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
“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.” — 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
“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 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...dying and somehow being brought back to life in the same moment, the same breath.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.” — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“He's too much. Everything about him is too much. His emotions, his actions, his anger, his aggression. His love.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
