Tahereh Mafi Quotes

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.

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 think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.

Because this.

This is everything.

I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are.

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.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Lift your hips for me, love.

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

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,” he says. Then adds, “I mean, you know - like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.

I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.

They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.

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, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"

"What?"

"All of this," Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, "has nothing to do with him being all sexy and shit and him being able to touch you all the time?"

"You think Warner is sexy?"

"That is not what I said.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?