An Emotion of Great Delight Quotes

“My sadness had made me noteworthy. Beautiful. Had imbued in me a kind of dignity, a weight I could not uncarry.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I looked up then, searched the sky. When I found the moon, I found God, when I saw the stars, I saw God, when I let myself be inhaled by the vast, expanding universe, I understood God the way Seneca once did– God is everything one sees and everything one does not see.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I'd thought, for so long, that this pain I clenched every day in my fist would be my sole possession, all I ever carried for the rest of my life. I'd forgotten I had two hands.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I lived, always, on the uncertain plane of a hyphen.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“God alone," he said, his voice shaking, "God alone knows the depth of my regrets.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“It would’ve been easier, I often thought, to have been exactly that variety of half-hearted Muslim, one who could more easily walk away from faith in order to be accepted.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I never told her what happened, because telling my mom what happened would only cause her to worry about me, which would break my vow to spare her the need to ever worry about me. I didn't want her to worry. Not about me. Not about anyone. And yet... Even in this, I was occasionally a failure.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I wanted only for us to evolve backward, into the version of ourselves that never caught fire when we collided.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I didn’t know how to tell people that I was just as stupid today as I was yesterday, and that I spent most of my time thinking about how my life was falling apart in ways that had nothing to do with the news cycle.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight

“I didn’t know how she could love a complicated man without it complicating her love. I didn’t know how her mind sorted and prioritized emotion; I didn’t know how she’d landed here—looking incandescent—after all we’d been through.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight