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

“Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?”

“So much of it was like seeing myself on paper,” he whispers. “Like reading all the things I never knew how to say.”

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

“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.”

“I'm having a panic attack, you inconsiderate ass.”

“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.”

“The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.”

“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”

“A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.”

“With time to think, the full reality of what had happened hit Thomas like a falling boulder. Ever since Thomas had entered the Maze, Newt had been there for him. Thomas hadn’t realized just how much of a friend he’d become until now. His heart hurt.”

“He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”