Tahereh Mafi Quotes

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• All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
• I love you exactly as you are.
• It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
• I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
• Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky,…
• His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says,…
• I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into…
• Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
• You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a…
• Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did…
• On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of…
• I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
• Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.
• Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
• People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
• I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and…
• Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

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