Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

“Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.”

“My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.”

“I'm wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face.”

“I hear Warner laugh.I see him smile.It's the kind of smile that transforms him into someone else entirely, the kind of smile that puts stars in his eyes and a dazzle on his lips and I realize I've ...”

“We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing an...”

“My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.”

“I am not myself.My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.”

“She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.”

“I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.”

“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.”

“My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.”

“I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands...”

“Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.”

“1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does.”

“The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be.”

“he says : " please don't shoot me for this " and he kissed me .”

“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.”

“I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”

“Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.”

“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 here. N...”