Truth Quote by Tahereh Mafi — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.”

“I cling to him, wishing I could ease his pain. I wish I could take his burdens and make them mine.”

“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.”

“He was terrified she'd go and do something brutal, like smile at him.”

“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.”

“It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirror, all along.”

“The worst part of being okay is that okay is far from happy.”

“Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.”

“How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.”

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”

“If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world,”

“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”