Top 100 Tahereh Mafi Quotes
#1. My organs are dead, my bones are cracked, my skin is a sieve, punctured by pins and needles of pain.
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#2. Oh, so now you're abusing the crippled kid, huh?" Kenji takes a moment to steady himself before punching Adam in the arm. "Save your angst for the battlefield, bro. You're going to need it.
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#3. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.
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#4. I didn't dare get close to people. I couldn't risk it.
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#5. And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I'll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.
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#6. You have disappointed me in so many ways," he says, his voice deceptively soft. "Please don't let this be another.
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#8. I have a heart.", says Science."But I'm a monster", says society.
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#9. I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
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#10. I want to put a bullet through Adam Kent's spine.
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#11. My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.
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#12. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future
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#13. ... shit happens. We deal with it, and we find a way to survive. You're not the only one with the problems.
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#14. Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me; I wanted her to talk to me. And I felt it then: this strange, inexplicable sense that she might be the only person in the world I could really care about.
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#15. He's still looking at me, searching my eyes like he's found something he can't bear to walk away from. His hands move to my face; his thumb brushes my cheek. His voice is so tender when he speaks.
"You will go on to greatness," he whispers. "I have never deserved you."
My heart.
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#16. Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.
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#17. I see women and children starving to death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh of casualties. I see dead dead dead red and burgundy and maroon and the richest shade of your mother's favorite lipstick all smeared into the earth.
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#18. I place my hands on his chest. He presses me into the curve of his body. Tilts my chin up to meet his eyes. "I'll be good to you," he whispers. "I'll be so good to you, Juliette. I promise."
And he kisses me. Hungrily. Desperately. Eager to break me open and taste me.
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#19. You are magnificent. You are extraordinary.
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#20. Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.
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#21. I am not dramatic, okay? My presence just commands a certain kind of attention-
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#22. And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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#23. The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.
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#24. I'm in love with you."
"Good grief." She kept walking.
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#25. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters,
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#26. Rip the page out of the small notebook and clutch it close, actively swallowing the hysteria tickling every broken moment in my mind.
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#27. Alice couldn't explain why, exactly, but she knew now that things had changed between them. Oliver had become her friend in an absolute, uncomplicated way. She was done fighting him, and he was done lying to her.
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#29. In my very limited experience I've already found that people seeking power are not to be trusted.
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#30. 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.
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#31. You should know - you, have to know, that I have never wanted anything like I've wanted you. Nothing. You have no idea, what you do to me.
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#32. I dare to hope Adam is trying to reach out to me. I'm crazy enough to consider the possibility.
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#33. My body is a carnivorous flower, a poisonous houseplant, a loaded gun with a million triggers and he's more than ready to fire.
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#34. He doesn't even care about you!" Warner explodes. I flinch at the sudden, uncontrolled intensity in his voice.
"He just wants a way out of here and he's using you!"
He steps forward. "I could love you, Juliette-I would treat you like a queen-
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#35. You broke up with me. You gave up on us - on our entire future together. You basically reached in and ripped my heart out and now you're asking me if I'm okay? How the hell am I supposed to be okay, Juliette? What kind of question is that?
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#36. Maybe he and I really are perfect for each other.
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#38. There are secrets everywhere. Answers nowhere.
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#39. My bones are like cubes of ice clinking together, chilling me to my core.
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#40. You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.
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#41. But I mean , why even have a love affair? ( ... ) I never understood that kind of crap. If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat.
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#42. but I melt until I'm a handful of hot butter dripping down his body.
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#43. He still has the most unusually blue eyes I've ever seen. Dark and deep and drenched in passion. I always wondered what it'd be like to see the world through such a beautiful lens. I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently.
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#44. I can do anything I want.
Be with anyone I want.
And it'll be my choice.
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#45. My eyes are 2 windows cracked open by the chaos in this world.
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#46. All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched onto paper.
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#47. How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.
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#48. There is a little I allow anyone to discover about me. There's even less I'm willing to share about myself. And one of the many things I've ever discussed, this is one of them. I like to take long baths.
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#49. I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.
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#50. Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident
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#53. 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 not choose.
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#54. You could love me, you know." He's smiling a strange sort of smile. "We would be unstoppable. We would change the world. I could make you happy." he says to me.
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#55. Water that never moves." I say to him. "Its fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll sustain you. But if it sits too long it goes bad. It grows stale. It becomes toxic." I shake my head. "I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.
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#56. We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new days and the promise of something better.
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#58. I know who I am" he says, " that's enough for me" -Warner-
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#59. Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.
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#60. I've tried so hard to stop thinking about him.
I've tried so hard to forget his face.
I've tried so hard to get those blue blue blue eyes out of my head but I know him I know him I know him it's been 3 years since I last saw him.
I could never forget Adam.
But he's already forgotten me.
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#61. The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.
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#62. That's how I knew, for example, that Private Seamus Fletcher, 45B-76423, was beating his wife and children every night.
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#63. 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.
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#64. So, let me get this straight," Winston says. "Our plan is basically seduce the soldiers and civilians of Sector 45 into fighting with us?"
Kenji crossed his arms. "Yeah, it sounds like we're going to go all peacock and hope they find us attractive enough to mate with."
"Gross," Brendan frowns.
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#65. I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture and suffering is gone, until he's given a chance to live the kind of life where no one can wound him this deeply ever again.
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#66. I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever.
I am a whisper that never was.
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#67. The Reestablishment promised a future too perfect to be possible and society was too desperate to disbelieve. They never realized they were signing away their souls to a group planning on taking advantage of their ignorance. Their fear. Most
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#68. I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.
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#69. I'm so afraid to speak.
So afraid to move my lips.
I'm so scared that if I move even an inch, my body will snap in half and everyone will see that my insides are made up of nothing but all the tears I'm swallowing back right now.
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#70. This doesn't happen. People aren't forgotten like this. Not abandoned like this.
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#71. I don't know how to hate you anymore. Even though I want to and I know I should but I just can't." - Juliette
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#72. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in her. No one will ever hear me again.
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#73. His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
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#74. I am not myself.
My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.
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#75. Find me a cure for these tears, I'd really like to exhale for the first time in my life.
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#76. Because when I said I wanted to touch the moon you took my hand, held me close, and taught me how to fly.
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#77. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.
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#79. A blush of roses on my face. [ ... ] I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage.
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#80. Kenji: Did you really love him...?
Juliette: I think so? I don't know. Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is.
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#81. Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.
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#82. Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him. I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it.
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#83. Good morning, sunshine." Kenji blinks in our direction.
"Morning," I say back.
"I wasn't talking to you," he says, trying to smile.
"I was talking to the sunshine.
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#85. I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.
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#86. Then what's happening right now? Because something is happening right now and it doesn't feel okay, he says, his voice catching.
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#87. He pulls me close, too close. I'm frozen in five hundred layers of fear. Stunned in grief, in disbelief.
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#88. All I know is that it'll never be safe for me to rely on someone else again, to need constant reassurance of who I am and who I might someday be. I can love him, but I can't depend on him to be my backbone. I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.
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#90. Damn," Kenji says after a moment. "Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas
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#91. It's like I've been stuffed full of twigs and all I have to do is bend and my body will break. All the guilt, the anger, the frustration, the pent-up aggression inside of me has found an outlet and now it can't be controlled.
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#92. I want to be able to feel you," he whispers, his words at my ear. "I want your skin against mine." His gentle hands move down my body. "Gosh, you're so soft," he says, his voice husky with emotion.
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#93. And I asked the world to open up, I said, world, please open up, because I'd love to fall into a river of magma and die, just a little bit, but the world couldn't hear me ...
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#94. Hi" she whispers. It's just one word but my heart is already racing.
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#95. And I think, Wow, I did it. I actually managed to die of a stroke at age 17.
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#96. You're my best friend, Kenji. You know that, right?" "Yeah, kid." He grins at me. "I do. And I can't believe I got stuck with your skinny ass.
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#97. I feel so shy so suddenly. So blind, so unnecessarily bold.
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#98. I'm starving my stomach is a tortured pit of starvation I'm so hungry so hungry so hungry I can't even imagine what real food must taste like.
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#99. It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.
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