Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

- Tahereh Mafi

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect p…

- Tahereh Mafi

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

- Tahereh Mafi

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

- Tahereh Mafi

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

- Tahereh Mafi

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear …

- Tahereh Mafi

The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever ju…

- Tahereh Mafi

In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

- Tahereh Mafi

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss …

- Tahereh Mafi