“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.” — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner Copy Share Image
“He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“i'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was… — Tahereh Mafi Tahereh-mafi Copy Share Image
“You are so confident," he says to me. "You're stubborn and resilient. So brave. So strong. So inhumanly beautiful. You could conquer… — Tahereh Mafi Aaron-warner Copy Share Image
“And I asked the world to open up, I said, world, please open up, because I'd love to fall into a river… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It’s all your fault! It’s your fault, you worthless piece of shit,” his father screamed over and over and over again until… — Tahereh Mafi Parenting Copy Share Image
“Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You’re like a freaking beast,”… — Tahereh Mafi Friends Copy Share Image
“.. but you-with you-" Hefalters. Looks down. "How am I supposed to go back?" he asks, so quietly. "How am I supposed… — Tahereh Mafi Adam-kent Copy Share Image
“Maybe you should accept the fact that you've tried to be someone you're not for so long that no matter what you… — Tahereh Mafi Accept The Fact Copy Share Image
“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments,… — Tahereh Mafi Book Copy Share Image
“me. His clothes were worse than mine, his lunch nonexistent. I never saw him eat. One” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“There is very little you understand about my world, Juliette.” — Tahereh Mafi Learning Copy Share Image
“I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I couldn't scream because my lungs were… — Tahereh Mafi Brave Copy Share Image
“I'd appreciate if you'd grow the hell up and stop walking around like the world crapped on your only roll of toilet… — Tahereh Mafi Kenji Copy Share Image
“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.” — Tahereh Mafi Life Copy Share Image
Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3:… — Tahereh Mafi Explosions Copy Share Image
