Tahereh Mafi Quotes - Page 2

We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

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.

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

I imagine this is what it feels like to fall apart.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly.

I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

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..

I force myself to lock away the fear.

I do know that I don't want to wake him.

We were up very late last night.

I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

I'm trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I'm lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable amount of agony.

I want you to be happy," I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you," I say. 'You deserve that.

I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

We have lost our humanity.

We have lost our humanity.

In my very limited experience I've already found that people seeking power are not to be trusted.

You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it.

How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.

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