Life Quotes Quote by Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing”

““We’re running out of time, he said.”

““I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.”

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

“We all care about what others think. Those that say the don’t will ponder how others feel about that. ”

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.”