Top 70 Tahereh Mafi Love Quotes
#1. I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
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#2. Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.
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#3. Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.
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#5. 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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#6. I touch the tip of my finger to his lips. "There are secrets in here," I say. "I want them out."
He tries to bite my finger.
I steal it back.
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#7. Juliette, love," he says to me, still holding my eyes. "You have just started a war.
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#8. Something in my patience snaps.. 'I'd really rather die than eat your food food and hear you call me 'love'... He holds my gaze for a few infinitely long seconds before he pulls a gun out of jis jacket pocket, He fires.
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#9. 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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#10. Incredible. He left me bleeding all over his living floor. What a nice little present for his son to clean up. What a nice little lesson for his son to learn. Fall in love, and you get to watch your love get shot.
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#11. He looks at me with so much emotion I nearly crack in half.
"God, Juliette
"
And he's kissing me.
Once, twice, until I've had a taste and realize I'll never have enough.
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#14. He leans into my ear. Lowers his voice. "Ignite, my love. Ignite.
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#18. Maybe we both fell in love with the illusion of something more
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#20. I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.
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#21. My lips curve around the shape of his name. I'm surprised to discover how much I love the easy, familiar way the sound rolls off my tongue.
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#22. A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, he says softly.
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#26. I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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#27. I want to be that friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into that private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend.-Waren
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#29. 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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#31. I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.
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#32. I've been stealing your soaps," I
tell him.
He raises his eyebrows at me.
"Sorry." I feel myself blush.
"Don't feel bad," he says, serious
so suddenly. "You can have anything of
mine you want. You can have all of it.
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#33. The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e
I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.
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#34. But being around so much love has managed to thaw my frozen parts into something human. I feel human. Like maybe I could be part of this world. Like maybe I don't have to be a monster. Maybe I'm not a monster. Maybe things can change.
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#35. Every vertebra, every knuckle, both kneecaps, both hips. I am a pile of bones on the floor and no one knows it but me. I am a broken skeleton with a beating heart.
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#36. I want you to be happy," I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you," I say. 'You deserve that.
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#38. I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.
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#39. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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#40. I'm in love with you."
"Good grief." She kept walking.
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#41. I am so tired, love.I'm so very,very tired.
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#42. Love, it turned out, could both hurt and heal.
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#43. Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
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#44. I want to scream, sometimes, I want to collapse, sometimes, I want to die knowing that I've known what it was like to live with this kiss, this heart, this soft soft explosion that makes me feel like I've taken a sip of the sun ...
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#45. Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blinks a few times.
"Nope."
I roll back, disappointed.
"Oh."
"This is so depressing." Kenji says.
"Yeah"
"We suck."
"Yeah.
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#46. He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft.
Because they're dead, love. They're all dead.
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#47. I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are.
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#48. It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
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#49. He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process.
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#50. I have never known this kind of peace. Never known this kind of comfort. And sometimes I am afraid," he says, dropping his eyes, "that my love will terrify you.
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#53. I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.
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#54. Oliver felt much more than sorry for Alice. His heart had grown ten sizes since he'd met her, and the hours he'd lost her had nearly broken him.
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#55. I love you.
He breaks. His voice. His back. His knees. His face. He breaks.
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#56. It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.
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#58. 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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#59. That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.
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#60. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.
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#61. I do know that I don't want to wake him.
We were up very late last night.
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#62. It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me
and I care about him!"
Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.
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#63. But I'm shocked by the tenderness in his voice. The sincerity with which he wants to know. He's like a feral dog, crazed and wild, thirsty for chaos, simultaneously aching for recognition and acceptance.
Love.
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#64. Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't know I even know what love is.
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#65. I've loved you forever, I tell him.
The sun rises, rests, shines in his face and he almost smiles, almost can't meet my eyes.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
I think I already love this kid.
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#70. Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.
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