Awoken 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

“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

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

“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

“Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

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

“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

“Nunca me he considerado normal, pero sólo ahora me doy completa cuenta de lo extremadamente anormal que soy.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“Espero hacer algo que conmueva a la gente algún día, tanto si es por su significado como si es por mi entusiasmo por ello.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“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

“Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you’re about to die.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“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

“Las pertenencias que las personas acumulan a lo largo de sus vidas siempre terminarán poseyéndolas. La gente parece pensar que, si tienen más, serán más felices o más libres, pero sus posesiones sólo las encadenan a la tierra.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken

“El mundo está dictado por nuestros deseos más que por nuestros pensamientos. El primero pone al último en movimiento.”
― Sarah Noffke, Awoken