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A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
Tahereh Mafi
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Tahereh Mafi
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 9
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In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.
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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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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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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
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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.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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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.
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I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.
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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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I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
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Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.
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I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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