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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Tahereh Mafi

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Tahereh Mafi
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 9
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Science Fiction Writer
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Connecticut
United States
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Time goes on even when we do not.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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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—
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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.
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A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.
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Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.
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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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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
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Why sleep when there are books to read.
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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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