I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh MafiAnd 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.
Tahereh MafiOnly an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
Tahereh MafiHis hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.
Tahereh Mafi