Ren Quotes

“I ask God all sorts of questions, but only science ever answers back.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“The flaw is you thinking that you’re repressed. Those with that mentality will always find an oppressor.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Building a happy life usually takes constant renovations.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Why the fuck do you think I’m so tired?” I say to her.
“Because you play too much online poker?” she says.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“And they do it all with perfect hair before winking with a sparkle in their teeth which have suffered too much orthodontics.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Not even God can keep me from you.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Loving someone is not for them. It is for you. We love each other to fulfill our own desires.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Sometimes allowing tragedies to happen creates a necessary evolution.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“You’re going to end up creating a bunch of apes because you never allow the people you save to face the adversity that would cause real soul searching and redemption.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Societies progress the most when they falls on their knees and we want to help and save lives, but not at the expense of progress.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Those who can’t believe in their full greatness will never experience it. You have to believe it to see, not see it to believe it.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“This is just fucking life. We live. We die. Shit happens. It’s really not as big a deal as everyone likes to make it. The worst thing in the world can happen and guess fucking what? It doesn’t really matter. The world goes on. You only think things will break you. That you’re vulnerable, but that’s a bloody choice.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“All goodbyes unsaid reside somewhere and I’m sure it’s a place that reeks of regrets.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“This is a man who wants to inconvenience people by making them say his full name. People like Christophers and Matthews and Jeffreys really need to get over themselves and go by the shortened versions of their names.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“People like him are easily distracted and more intent on defending their egos than preserving their safety. People are so incredibly easy to manipulate.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Happiness has been the hardest thing for me to obtain, but there shouldn’t be a greater pursuit for you. You can save the world but if you don’t save yourself then it will never matter.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“On this day a star has fallen, one that will leave a permanent dark place in the sky.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“I’ll spend my entire life, just searching for someone who compares to you.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“You don’t say goodbye when you know you’re going to see each other again.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“You’re the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says.
“It sounds like you’ve lived an incredibly sheltered life,” I say, gripping her hand firmly.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“You’re the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says, and for the first time in all our lives, I feel a pain in her that is too beautiful for words. It’s not the pain of rejection, like I’ve made her feel so many times. It’s not the pain of loss. It’s the pain of having, and realizing this world can gift us in ways that touch our soul.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“I love that we are here, discussing my abusive behavior. That she’s hiding a smile. That I’m hiding everything. And that she’s the only person I can ever have a tender moment with quite like this. Leaving so much unsaid. Saying the things that matter very little.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“Each hour of the day, she wears the pain like a solider does a battle scar. Hidden. Buried under clothes. Away from the eyes of everyone. But I feel her pain.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“The aurora borealis is proof that other worlds exist. It’s the bleeding over of these other worlds.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“I’ve been working too hard to have you spoil all my plans by dying.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“You look like hell,” she says, reaching out and touching my stubbled cheek.
I smile against her fingers.
“You do too.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“People who seek immortality fail to see that they are trying to live forever by never dying. They are idiots. They are wrong. They will always fail. And they aren’t me, the most strategic man on this planet.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“For centuries explorers, scientists and religious followers have sought a way to make the hooded figure of death fail in his quest. And none have persevered. But they didn’t know what I know. They sought fountains of youth and treasures and other sacrificial regimens that would secure their immortality. But it’s not about the blood that runs through our veins. It’s about the approach. Death can’t be thwarted with a miracle cure. It has to be outmaneuvered.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“He has exchanged part of his spirit for just the will to live.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death

“This experience is brand new. Not new. It is my first time, and also not. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. I don’t know how to explain the feeling of unfeeling. Of experiencing the unexperience of this all. I am lost and yet I’m here. I’m me and yet I don’t fully know who that is.”
― Sarah Noffke, Ren: The Monster's Death