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Tahereh Mafi Quotes | Quotes said by Tahereh Mafi

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #1

    ¿Por qué me tocas? -porque puedo. -Casi esboza una sonrisa y a mi casi me nacen un par de alas-. Ya lo he hecho.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #2

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

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #3

    A tired starving dog so thin and frail it looks like it could be knocked over by the wind. But it's staring at me. Unafraid. Mouth opened. Tongue lolling.
    I want to laugh out loud.
    I glanced around quickly before scooping the dog into my arms. I don't need to give my father anymore reasons to castrate me, and I don't trust my soldiers not to report something like this. That I would play with the dog.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #4

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

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #5

    And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he's so close, he's so close and I can't feel my legs anymore. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere, filling everything and he whispers

    Please.

    He says, Please don't shoot me for this.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #6

    And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
    and not breathing and hearts beating
    between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
    “Please.”
    He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.”
    And he kisses me.
    His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s
    so effortlessly sweet.
    And then it changes.
    “Oh God—”
    He kisses me again, this time stronger,
    desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.
    He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that
    his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and
    I’m falling.
    I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #7

    And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.

    Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.

    Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.

    Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.

    Run, I said.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #8

    And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #9

    And I understand, for the first time, that I have the power to destroy everything.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #10

    And I've fallen.

    So hard.

    I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen.

    And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.

    Love is a heartless bastard.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #11

    And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #12

    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.”
    “Who’s Bruce Lee?”
    “Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”
    “Why? Was he a friend of yours?”
    “You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #13

    Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #14

    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.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #15

    Because it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #16

    Because it's so hard to be kind to the world when all you've ever felt is hate.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #17

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

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #18

    Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #19

    Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #20

    Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree..

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #21

    El sol y la luna se han fusionado y la tierra está del revés. Siento que puedo ser exactamente quien quiero en sus brazos.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #22

    First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #23

    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.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #24

    Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #25

    Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?
    What? He looks mortally offended. Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #26

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

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #27

    He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #28

    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.

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #29

    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

  • Tahereh Mafi Quote #30

    His smile is laced with dynamite.

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