Noelle W. Ihli > Quotes

“He was the kind of beautiful that drew you in before you even considered the fact that beautiful things can be poisonous.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“For the ones who made it out alive. For the ones who didn’t. For the ones still fighting somewhere in between.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“that the people we love are not gone forever. That everything we ever loved, ever did, ever said, ever read, ever experienced, comes back to us. See, here we are together.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“But I have learned, as you know now, that the people we love are not gone forever. That everything we ever loved, ever did, ever said, ever read, ever experienced, comes back to us.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“Narcissists think they’re smarter than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they are. That’s how they get caught. They make mistakes. They underestimate the intelligence of police. And they underestimate the intelligence of their victims.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Nature was beautiful, at a distance. Up close, it was usually terrifying.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“Men like this said things like that to girls like us, knowing we’d been told our whole lives that if we listened carefully and followed the rules, we’d stay safe.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“There were foxes, and there were hounds. And then there were the animals who didn’t fit into the natural order of things at all. Who meant the hurt they caused every time.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“Fear was a warning, a survival instinct. It meant there might still be a way out, if only you could keep your legs pumping and your brain firing long enough to find out.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“On a date that isn’t going well? Do you feel unsafe or just a little uneasy? Ask for Andrea at the bar. We’ll make sure you get home safe.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“What I know is that the people we loved on the other side are gone. I mourned you, like you mourned me when I died. But I have learned, as you know now, that the people we love are not gone forever. That everything we ever loved, ever did, ever said, ever read, ever experienced, comes back to us. See,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“Panic is your enemy.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Opening up your heart is messy—and risky. But keeping your heart spotless is risky too,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“came back because you’re my best friend, and I couldn’t leave you.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I looked at her in disbelief. “If I see a damn mouse come out of your dashboard, I am hurling myself out of the Volvo.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Narcissists think they’re smarter than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they are.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Ahead, forest. Behind, hell.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“Your chances of surviving an assault at any given location are 97%. Your chances of survival, if you are taken to a second location, drop to 30%.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Hope was one thing. Delusion was another.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Gray After Dark

“The idea that every choice, no matter how small, mattered had fascinated my anxious brain.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“We were all targets.  Even if you made the right choice, followed the right rules, took the right risks, kept your cool, made the right friends, didn’t walk alone home after dark, kept a rape whistle in your pocket, and guarded your drink at bars.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Thou goest home to thine eternal slumber. Thou goest home to thine eternal bed. Thou goest back to thy home of winter, Thy home of autumn, of spring, and of summer; Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy sorrow, Sleep thou, sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep now, beloved in the shade of high branches Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves; Sleep this night in the breast of thy mother, Sleep, thou beloved, while she herself soothes thee; Thy face is turned to thine old home, beloved Thou goest back to the womb whence thou sprang The sleep of the seven lights be thine, beloved, The sleep of the seven joys be thine, beloved, The shadow of death enfolds thee, beloved, But in nearness thy father stands by and by Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy sorrow, Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy pain. Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O beloved, the rest of all rest.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“I’d been bracing for something bad to happen for as long as I could remember. Ever vigilant, ever anxious,”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“The irony that we might have escaped the psychopaths on the road only to freeze to death in the canyon felt razor sharp. I couldn’t let the story end this way.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought I could skip the bad parts of life if I tried hard enough. If I was smart enough.  But sometimes the trouble came to you—for the simple fact that it could and it wanted to.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“I’d always thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red

“Because when I finally stopped running, I realized to my amazement that I wasn’t out of breath. Just as quickly, the amazement turned to horror. I wasn’t breathing hard because I wasn’t breathing at all.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“I couldn’t understand what was happening. I couldn’t scream. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even tell where I was. All I knew was that everything hurt.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Ask for Andrea

“In the center of the road, we were playing chicken with a head-on collision, but that idea wasn’t nearly as scary as the possibility of letting them stop us again.”
― Noelle W. Ihli, Run on Red