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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 (The Lucidites, #2))
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 (The Lucidites, #1))
Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
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 (The Lucidites, #3))
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 (The Lucidites, #1))
I’m a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
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 (The Reverians, #1))
The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
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 Lucidites, #3))
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 (Ren #3))
Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
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 (The Lucidites, #2))
One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows.
Sarah Noffke (Paralyzed (The Vagabond Circus, #2))
He was a tornado, changing every second, beautiful and dangerous and unpredictable. But she loved storms. Always had.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
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 (The Vagabond Circus, #3))
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 (The Lucidites, #3))
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 (The Lucidites, #1))
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 (The Vagabond Circus, #2))
You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Sometimes you can’t tell people things because you know they won’t hear you.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
I only ever save you because I can’t live without you. My reasons are purely selfish.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
It’s hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
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)
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 (The Reverians, #3))
The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else’s hands. I’m always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it.
Sarah Noffke (The Monster Inside the Monster (Ren #3))
His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all directions.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
It's just like riding a bicycle. If you fall off, it hurts like hell.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
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 (The Lucidites, #2))
If my time loving you has taught me anything, it’s that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Love isn’t governed by logic or understanding. You don’t enter into it like an agreement. It crashes down on you. You wake up one morning and realize the reason you can’t take your eyes off someone is because you’re in love with them.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I’m seconds away from igniting.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Don’t make loss in your life make you a loser.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Is this what normal people do?” he asked. “Do they wake up every day next to someone they love and receive affection?
Sarah Noffke (Released (The Vagabond Circus, #3))
He’s incredibly perfect in his very nature of existing. He’s perfect in his uniqueness. He burns so bright. So bright at times he hurts my eyes. Makes my heart ache from his grace.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
People fight wars for power. But those who win are motivated by love. Never lose sight of that.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
He’s my calm in commotion. He’s the rebel smiling when the danger mounts. He’s the guy daring to joke in the face of death.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
You’re the empire I’d protect. You’re my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You’re my freedom.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that’s the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value.
Sarah Noffke (Ren: The Man Behind the Monster)
The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they’d be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
I can’t let you go. If you leave, I’m leaving too. If you stay, I will. Hell, if you march into your father’s house I’ll be right behind you, because I’m absolutely, terrifyingly in love with you.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
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 (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I’m as solid as a column. And alone I stand.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
His warmth fills the space between my heartbeats. I don’t know what it is about him, but he lures me in so effortlessly and tangles my heart in a net.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
And his voice fell away, like it was sucked up by the night, his eyes emptied like the stars had robbed him of his soul.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
He never had anything for all of his life, and regarded being rich as akin to living full time on the moon, but suddenly he felt as though he was the wealthiest man on Earth.
Sarah Noffke (Paralyzed (The Vagabond Circus, #2))
Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need
Sarah Noffke (Paralyzed (The Vagabond Circus, #2))
I ask God all sorts of questions, but only science ever answers back.
Sarah Noffke (Ren: The Monster's Death (Ren #5))
I’m fairly certain God takes notes out of my book. He should. If he knows what’s good for him.
Sarah Noffke (Ren: The Man Behind the Monster)
Second chances don’t ever, ever come along. You go and seize them.
Sarah Noffke (Ren: The Man Behind the Monster)
What I want and what I have to do are incongruent.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Sometimes you don’t get to be who you are.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
I know who he is and just what he’s capable of,” I say, seeing his piercing stare in my mind’s eye. “But the way others treat me doesn’t dictate the way I treat them.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
Fate has a way of finding us even when we hide.
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
I don’t want to know the answer, but I can’t live without the truth.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
The fastest way to heal is to bypass the drama and head straight for the solution.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
Nunca me he considerado normal, pero sólo ahora me doy completa cuenta de lo extremadamente anormal que soy.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
You know I have complete faith in you, but what’s your backup plan if this doesn’t work?” Plato asked. Liv began dissembling the compass. “That’s not how ‘complete faith’ works.
Sarah Noffke (The Rebellious Sister (Unstoppable Liv Beaufont, #1))
That felt like the right approach, and feelings were as good as gold to him. Logic was the downfall of most men because it took the most important factor out of the equation: emotion.
Sarah Noffke (The Rebellious Sister (Unstoppable Liv Beaufont, #1))
And although she wasn’t a girl of faith, she somehow always knew if one thing prevented her from doing something it was because something better was in store for her. She trusted life.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.
Sarah Noffke (Warriors (The Reverians, #3))
She felt like she’d looked through a window and knew what happiness looked like. It was pure and unadulterated and just on the other side of a distant ridge through a murky window. And still she was closer to happiness than she’d ever been.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
She giggled when it was funny and when it wasn’t and when she was about to kick ass. It was just who she was. She didn’t laugh to cover nervousness. It was because she found most things in life to be strangely awesome and absurd at the same time.
Sarah Noffke (The Uncommon Rider (The Exceptional S. Beaufont, #1))
Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I’m closer to the dam within me bursting open. He’s undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste of his mouth. In his arms, I’m changing, becoming anew.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
I’m not in a position where I can blindly allow myself to be manipulated. I’m a robot who has awoken to the realization that I’ve been damaged so I can’t perform, so I can’t take my rightful place within this society. And I don’t want to be damaged anymore.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
You know, most wake up constructing their world from what they experienced the day before. When we look out expecting what we’ve always gotten, then that’s exactly what we get. But if we want something new, then we have to regard life with fresh eyes, ears and a mind open to possibilities.
Sarah Noffke (The Uncommon Rider (The Exceptional S. Beaufont, #1))
A show at the circus was an organic being. It was created by real ingredients, real people. It sometimes evolved and sometimes regressed. It lived and it died. Each show, each day, was alive for a brief period of time, like a human. And then as the audience exited the big top the beating heart of that show slowed until it was no more.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
It’s good that people get to be human. They get to fuck up and hurt each other. And have broken hearts and then seek to find ways to mend things. People get to evolve. They get to figure out how to change so they don’t lose people in their life. Who are we when we aren’t allowed to screw up? We are fucking lemurs who live no real lives.
Sarah Noffke (The Monster Inside the Monster (Ren #3))
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It’s all greedy yearning.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
Even when I don’t know the people, I still find their faults. Or invent them.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
He had felt their connection like one does a diamond and knows it’s real and unbreakable.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
The prisoner remains in chains until they realize there aren’t any chains there in the first place…which doesn’t happen if they’re never given sight
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
Today we remember the man who brought magic back to this world by lighting a spark in all of you. You are all his legacy. You are the magic of Vagabond Circus.
Sarah Noffke (Paralyzed (The Vagabond Circus, #2))
You’re kind of fun, you know, like a snowball fight, chilly and piercing but still entertaining,” she says. “I’m not fun at all. Ask anyone. They’ll tell you,” I say.
Sarah Noffke (God's Little Monster (Ren #2))
You’re kind of fun, you know, like a snowball fight, chilly and piercing but still entertaining,” she says. “I’m not fun at all. Ask anyone. They’ll tell you,” I say.
Sarah Noffke (God's Little Monster (Ren #2))
Love is really the most beautiful show. It can’t rehearsed. It can’t be planned. It is the product of magic. It is what Vagabond Circus is all about.
Sarah Noffke (Released (The Vagabond Circus, #3))
Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you’re about to die.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
Intentions are flimsy in the face of opposing danger. Determination, on the other hand, is resilient to challenge. It’s the antidote.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
Sarah Noffke (The Exceptional S. Beaufont Boxed Set #2: The Complete Magitech Collection (The Exceptional S. Beaufont #4-6))
The winds of change are a blowin’.
Sarah Noffke (The New Elite (The Exceptional S. Beaufont #4))
these are people who disempower and the best way to do that is to withhold knowledge.
Sarah Noffke (Defects (The Reverians, #1))
The audience was ecstatic, leaving the big top with smiles that wouldn’t fade for hours. They had seen what they thought were tricks, not realizing everything about this circus was real.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
We’re all just a conglomeration of our nervous habits. I see them like road maps in each conversation telling me more about the people than their words. stripping people of simple things weakens them.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. “Without change, we are dead,” he often said.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
Depends on one’s perspective whether my current state of affairs is considered hilarious. A stranger peering into my life would probably find it quite comical. I think it’s tragically humiliating, to say the very least.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.
Sarah Noffke (Awoken (The Lucidites, #1))
Most people aren’t happy. They sing songs like they are. Make up cute little stories. Post pics of the rare times when life wasn’t dreadful. Most people are stomaching this whole affair called life. Are these people complainers? Probably. Most are. But they’re also just blokes who’re too afraid to take a risk. So they live lives in a redundant cycle of complacent apathy. Then these people wallow around day after day in their unhappiness. The more you do that, the more you lose sight of the chances you could take to make things better.
Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I’ve always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I’m attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible.
Sarah Noffke (Stunned (The Lucidites, #2))
It’s something that someone gives you. A present of sorts. But not in the physical sense. Something that comes from the presence of someone simply existing. It happens in a single moment. And then it’s gone, whooshed away with the wind, only to be stored in the memory of the heart. 
Sarah Noffke (Rebels (The Reverians, #2))
The big top deflating symbolized death. The end of another round of shows. The last part of the life of this big top. The same big top would be reborn in another city. It would rise into the air, like the phoenix, but it would never be like this tent, with its backdrop and its smells and its winds.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
Everything is a power game. People don’t get along. They fucking play games with each other. And the loser is usually the one who doesn’t realize he just left his king wide pen for an attack. Know the people around you. Know what they’re capable of. And watch your fucking back when you piss them off.
Sarah Noffke (God's Little Monster (Ren #2))
The Vagabond Circus was different than all the rest in many ways and the first was it had no clowns. Not a single red, round nose in the whole troupe. Maybe that was the reason that Dave had decided he’d be the silliest ringmaster in all of history. His job was to lead and move the events of the show along but he was less a Master of Ceremony and more a buffer between the jaw dropping acts.
Sarah Noffke (Suspended (The Vagabond Circus, #1))
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Sarah Noffke (The Exceptional S. Beaufont Boxed Set 1: The Complete Training Collection (The Exceptional S. Beaufont #1-3))