The Monster Inside the Monster Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“We are the fucking Lucidites and we save people, but them finding peace and love is their own bloody mission, not ours.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“They get to feel the brunt of their mistakes and those kinds of people are the ones who make a better future. No, violence won’t go away and no, we can’t erase family pains, but why the fuck would we ever want to? It is that struggle that makes any of the love on this planet worth it.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Most men are idiots though. Easily sucked in by the beauty of the beast with a Y chromosome. However, a lioness is also alluring, and they can tear out a man’s throat.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Life is about doing what we must to survive, to make a life that has a semblance of happiness. That’s it. We are bloody humans with wrong desires and problems that seep out of us and onto society. We are evil little shits that change into worse versions of our younger selves as we get older. There’s nothing to really feel guilty about in a world where the creator made us fucked up in the first place. I’m sure as hell not going to pity myself for the things I’ve done or what I have to do.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“She’ll beg a commoner to share the monotony of their unthrilling day with her. It’s just more evidence that people always need what they don’t have and the glamour of the famed life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“It isn’t polite to smile at strangers. It’s disingenuous and completely a waste of energy.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“I can drag you to the feast but if you don’t feel you are worthy of it then you’ll never have it. You can’t force feed wealth.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“You can save a person’s life and still they may waste away. Health, wealth, and intelligence are matters of conviction.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“When I run the world, doorbells will be outlawed. Calling on people will be discouraged.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Being poor is a choice. People make decisions every day that decide whether they are fat or stupid or poor. It is not my responsibility to interfere in the lives people have chosen,”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“When you treat people like humans then they start acting like humans, employing feelings and making mistakes. Treat people like machines and they perform in a way that brings about consistent results, not polluted by emotions.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“That’s mostly why I loathe scientists. They want answers to everything, not realizing that they’ve deluded themselves into thinking that everything has an answer. That’s the most pompous short-sighted thing a person can think.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Babies mean death. Babies mark the mistakes in my life. The ones I thought I’d atoned for but now realize still live in my bones, threatening to break me”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“And then I spy something new in her. A loneliness. It makes her look so fragile, like a porcelain doll dangling over a marble floor. She’s always been dangling there too, terrified that one day she’ll fall and shatter.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“And her stare is a force I feel could shock my system like a defibrillator, restarting my heart.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“You can’t force feed wealth.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Solutions aren’t discovered, they’re bloody created.”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster

“Sure a butterfly goes through incredible changes, but at what cost? Is it worth evolving to a beautiful being to only fly for a few days?”
― Sarah Noffke, The Monster Inside the Monster