74 Quotes About Tahereh-mafi

If you want nice Kenji maybe you should check back in the morning, because right now all I've got is jack shit in the way of pleasantries.- Kenji

My voice softens. 'How old are you?''I'll be eleven next year.'I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'I think I already love this kid.

Today has been a shitstorm of shit. A tornado of shit. I can't take it anymore. I don't know whether to sit down and cry or set something on fire.-Kenji

I often felt like a very old person trapped in a young person’s body.

He raises his eyebrows. "At least I'm honest about being a liar.

For me, today was just another first day of school in another new city, so I did what I always did when I showed up at a new school: I didn’t look at people. People were always looking at me, and when I looked back they often took it as an invitation to speak to me, and when they spoke to me they nearly always said something offensive or stupid or both and I’d decided a long time ago that it was easier to pretend they just didn’t exist.

Als het erop aankomt, is voor iemand die pijn lijdt het geschenk van je tijd - en je liefde - het kostbaarst.

Zelfs de sterken, wijzen en ouden wankelen echter bij gebrek aan medeleven en gezelschap, en terwijl baba zijn gekte had en maman haar onzin, had Laylee in hun afwezigheid de eenzaamheid de hand geschud. Duisternis had duisternis gevoed totdat al het licht verdwenen was. Ze kon zich niet langer herinneren hoe het was om zonder gebroken hart te leven.

Het was niet zozeer de dood die ze vreesde, maar het doodgaan. Dit, deze machteloosheid in het zicht van haar sterfelijkheid, schroefde al haar moed los van de plek waar die thuishoorde.