Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
Tahereh Mafi
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tahereh Mafi
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 9
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Connecticut
United States
Raindrops
Reminder
Reminders
Heartbeat
Clouds
More quotes by Tahereh Mafi
I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
Tahereh Mafi
I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.
Tahereh Mafi
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
Tahereh Mafi
I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.
Tahereh Mafi
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.
Tahereh Mafi
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Tahereh Mafi
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
Tahereh Mafi
Why sleep when there are books to read.
Tahereh Mafi
You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—
Tahereh Mafi
Hope can make people do terrible things.
Tahereh Mafi
Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
Tahereh Mafi
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.
Tahereh Mafi
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
Tahereh Mafi
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi
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.
Tahereh Mafi
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
Tahereh Mafi
I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
Tahereh Mafi
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.
Tahereh Mafi
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh Mafi
And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
Tahereh Mafi