Tahereh Mafi
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.Collection: Love
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.Collection: Book
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's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.Collection: Hope
a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.Collection: Beautiful
On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.Collection: Pain
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.Collection: Grieving
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.Collection: Bookstores
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.Collection: Lying
Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.Collection: Gun
I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.Collection: Love
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. 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 because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.Collection: Night
The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.Collection: Writing
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.Collection: Clouds
We are synonyms but not the same.Collection: Synonym
Hope will break your heart all over again.Collection: Heart
People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.Collection: Thinking
And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.Collection: Alive
It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.Collection: Stars
I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.Collection: Believe
This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. 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. No one will ever hear me again.Collection: Taken
I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.Collection: Heart
I love you exactly as you are.Collection: Best Love
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.Collection: Letters
I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.Collection: Pockets
Hope can make people do terrible things.Collection: People
Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.Collection: Firsts
I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.Collection: Quotation Marks
Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.Collection: Children
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.Collection: Love
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 thatCollection: Years
Why sleep when there are books to read.Collection: Book
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.Collection: Rain
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.Collection: Character
I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: God
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.Collection: Animal
My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.Collection: Fall
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.Collection: Bird
Time goes on even when we do not.Collection: Goes On
Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.Collection: Girl
You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.Collection: Alive
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.Collection: Book
Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.Collection: Fun
Insane for your sweet, sweet love!Collection: Sweet