Suspended Quotes

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“To Dave a show was an organic being. It was created with real ingredients, by 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

“This was always a poetically sad part of every location to him. The big top deflating symbolized death to him. 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

“Nothing was a bigger motivator than love. It made people happy. It made them depressed. It made people challenge themselves. It made them different people. It made them kill. There’s a reason domestic violence is the most frequent, Titus thought. Love makes people insane.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“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

“Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“He had felt their connection like one does a diamond and knows it’s real and unbreakable.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“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 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 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 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

“To my judgmental eyes, Pink Streak has everything she wants and still she’s not completely happy. She has Dave’s unwavering admiration, friends, a great spot in the circus, beauty, talent, a wholesome upbringing, money and still she chooses every day to be unsatisfied with her life. There’s a lot of people here with less who are happier than her,”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended

“Your emotions are extremely complex and make my own feel normal. I need to surround myself with people who are more warped than me.”
― Sarah Noffke, Suspended