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

“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.”

“It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard.”

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”

“I know I'm petty and I don't care.”

“She didn't know how to describe this feeling, this breathless languor. No one had ever looked at her the way he did, as if the sight of her might be fatal. Her lips had parted under the weight of his silent want, her mouth growing heavy with the sound of his name and a desperate, foolish impulse to whisper the word against his skin.”

“Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

“you’re already naked in this world”

“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”

“This world”

“...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...”

“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI”