Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi

A handful of letters doesn’t always make a word, love.

Handful

Letters

Words Love

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

Heart

Loneliness

Love

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

Book

Long

People

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.

Eye

God

Heart

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

Gun

This World

World

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it’ll be my choice.

Can Do

Choices

Want

I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Bookstores

Pages

Sitting

I love you exactly as you are.

Best Love

Love You

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

Book

Character

Paper

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Book

Character

Loss

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Animal

Best Love

Book

Bookstores

Can Do

Character

Choices

Coffee

Dark

Easier

Emotion

Energy

Engineering

Eye

Fall

God

Grieving

Gun

Handful

Heart

Heartbreaking

Idiot

Insane

Kissing

Letters

Light

Littles

Locks

Loneliness

Long

Loss

Love

Love You

Lying

Mean

Men

Mind

Mistake

Moments

Night

Oxygen

Pages

Paper

People

Rain

Sitting

Sky

Sleep

Stars

Strong

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Quotes by Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi

A handful of letters doesn’t always make a word, love.

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

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it’ll be my choice.

I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

I love you exactly as you are.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

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