Quotes from Tahereh Mafi

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

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

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

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 that

His smile is laced with dynamite.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

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.

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

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Time goes on even when we do not.

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.

Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is

I love you exactly as you are.

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

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.

Insane for your sweet, sweet love!

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking.

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