Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

“Kenji snorts.Thats because youre not fragile, Kenji says. If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. Youre like a freaking beast, he says. Then adds, I mean, you knowlike, a cute b...”

“Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. Hes shaking his head, holding up a hand in apology. And then he breaks, laughing out loud, snorting as he tries to muf...”

“My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to ...”

“Im not an idiot, Kenji. I have reasons for the things I say.Yeah, and maybe Im just saying that you have no idea what youre saying.Whatever.Dont whatever meWhatever, I say again.Oh my God, Kenji sa...”

“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'...”

“Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.Whos Bruce Lee?Whos Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrif...”

“Comamandering is not a word.It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.”

“Im not sure. But theres something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. Theres a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerabili...”

“Alice couldnt 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...”

“Kengi?""Yeah?"I take a deep breath. Try to count the stars. "What am I going to do?""About what?"I hesitate. "About everything."Kenji makes a strange sound. "Shit if I know.""I don't want to do thi...”

“So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?''What?' I startle. 'For what?''For the day you're going to stop being such a dumbass,' he says shooting me a sharp look.'Oh.' I cringe. K...”

“Because I was dying.And Warner couldve let me die. He was angry and hurt and had every reason to be bitter. Id just ripped his heart out; Id let him believe something would come of our relationship...”

“I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the br...”

“I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking.”

“Im a starving child trying to stuff my stomach, gorging my senses on the decadence of these moments as if Ill wake up in the morning and realize Im still sweeping cinders for my stepmother.But then...”

“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.”

“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.”

“I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even ...”

“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.”