946 Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

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

The world has not yet broken him. Such freedom in ignorance.

He doesn't realize how his ignorance makes him vulnerable.

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.

I cling to him, wishing I could ease his pain. I wish I could take his burdens and make them mine. "It's weird, isn't it?" he says. "What is?" "If we were naked right now, I'd be dead." "Shut up," I say, laughing against his chest. We're both wearing long sleeves, long pants. As long as my face and hand don't touch his skin, he's perfectly safe. "Well, it's true." "In what alternate universe would I ever be naked with you?" "I am just

He was a man who felt too much, and his heart was so large that things got lost in it

Beauty is easily forgotten in the face of death, decrepitude, and general unpleasantness.

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.