Life Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

“Laughter comes from living.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“But one day, she swore, she'd breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.”

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“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

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“...dying and somehow being brought back to life in the same moment, the same breath.”

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“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.”

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“Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”

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“I remember you every day forever in every single broken moment of my life.”

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“I like when he tells me that he likes the way I feel because it goes against what I've heard my entire…

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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I…

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“I hate that I let myself be so passive my whole life, and I see now how differently things could've been if…

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“Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady…

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“I didn't know much about the world, but there was something about you I was immediately drawn to. It's like I just…

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“Look at me, is what I wanted to say to you. Talk to me every once in a while. Find me a…

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“Because I was an idiot for thinking things could be different. For thinking you were a fluke. For thinking my life could…

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“We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it'll still find us. Death will show up wearing…

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“Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my…

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“I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me.…

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“I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most…

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“The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be. I press my…

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“Life is like a cloud. It comes in a million shapes and sizes and it offers no guarantees, no sympathies for the…

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“The life I know now is the only one that matters. The suffocation, the luxury, the sleepless nights, and the dead bodies.…

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“For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This…

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“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…

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“Because sometimes you see yourself—you see yourself the way you could be—the way you might be if things were different. And if…

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This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my…

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“We don’t have to do anything at all to die. We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life…

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“We're running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if…

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“I want you to live up to your potential!" "Let me go," I say quietly. I don't want to be your creature.…

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“It's like spending 6 months just trying to inhale. It's like forgetting how to move your muscles and reliving every nauseous moment…

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“We’re running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if…

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“I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I couldn't scream because my lungs were…

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“Brothers who hate each other. Brother who want to kill each other. And I'm caught in the middle. Good God, what has…

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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by…

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“Look at me, is what I wanted to say. Talk to me every once in awhile. Find me a cure for these…

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“Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life…

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“I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin" he…

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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi