Sarah Noffke > Quotes

“No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I’ll come up short and suffocate.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“You don’t want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.”
― Sarah Noffke, Defects

“I’m a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.”
― Sarah Noffke, Defects

“Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.”
― Sarah Noffke, Rebels

“Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.”
― Sarah Noffke, Defects

“Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one I’d fight to protect, one I’d die to keep.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“I think you've been hurt too much from an early age. You were trying to fix the world that broke you. When that didn't work you pretended you weren't broken. But you don't have to pretend with me, because no matter what you do I'll always accept you.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“I didn’t sell my soul to the devil or dance with her on a clear night. I ran up to the devil and I stole the mask she wore and I’ve worn it comfortably for quite some time.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Man Behind the Monster

“I don’t run from these worries though. I invite each one into my heart and mind. At the doorstep of my emotional threshold I greet them like a perfect host. Each worry tracks mud into my home and dirties the furniture. I grit and bear my houseguests. Their time with me will be short-lived.”
― Sarah Noffke, Stunned

“He was a tornado, changing every second, beautiful and dangerous and unpredictable. But she loved storms. Always had.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“I wouldn’t know what normal people do,” she said, and curled her head down until it was resting on his chest, his heartbeat music to her ears.”
― Sarah Noffke, Released

“One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows.”
― Sarah Noffke, Paralyzed

“I only ever save you because I can’t live without you. My reasons are purely selfish.”
― Sarah Noffke, Warriors

“Life is full of magic and if you try and explain it all then you lose the opportunity for bewilderment, which is a beautiful thing – Dr. Dave Raydon”
― Sarah Noffke, Paralyzed

“I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“Sometimes you can’t tell people things because you know they won’t hear you.”
― Sarah Noffke, Rebels

“You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“We are humans who make wrong decisions, who act in strange ways, who have freckles and ailments. We are humans who are incredible in both our capacity to love and our resistance to hate. And in our imperfections we are beautiful.”
― Sarah Noffke, Warriors

“It’s hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.”
― Sarah Noffke, Defects

“There’s no reason anyone should ever feel lonely when there’s love everywhere. There’s no excuse for talented people to trudge through life. And if we weigh down our children, the very source that makes the stars blaze in the sky, then we may wake to realize we’ve lost something irretrievable.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.”
― Sarah Noffke, Revived

“The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken