“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...dying and somehow being brought back to life in the same moment, the same breath.” — 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
“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'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
“...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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I remember you every day forever in every single broken moment of my life.” — 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
“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
“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
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
