Noa Noa Quotes & Sayings

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him. — Min Jin Lee

Each poem holds the voice of a moment.
Held within, they are contained, damned to silence;
released, they fly into the world to find a new heart and a new home within,
where they will speak again. — Noa Daniels

Don't put a mask on everyday if it means making you like this at night. It's alright to show us your weaknesses every now and again. — Noa Melody

Judah knew Noa hadn't said it was good-bye. She'd done it as he would have done it, if he'd had the chance: with just an ordinary moment. Unremarkable moments were the ones you missed the most- the ones you didn't realize were precious at the time, and so later could not remember. The moments you lost, when you lost a sister. — Lauren Bird Horowitz

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

she was certain he didn't know how the deep scars that marred his soul were reflecting on his body, like a silent scream for help. — Noa Xireau

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals — Min Jin Lee

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

Peace is not just a prayer. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

DON'T GET TOO CLOSE.
friends can only hurt you.
DON'T SAY A WORD.
it may be your last.
DON'T SLOW DOWN.
they will catch you. — Michelle Gagnon

Noa stared at her. She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated. His presence would prove to the world that she was a good person, an educated person, a liberal person. Noa didn't care about being Korean when he was with her; in fact, he didn't care about being Korean or Japanese with anyone. He wanted to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes. But that wasn't possible. It would never be possible with her. — Min Jin Lee

For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive. — Michelle Gagnon

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge - it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor. — Min Jin Lee

Noa Now, just like Noa Then, watched his careful fingers turn the crepes. His hands, both Then and Now, moved just the same; everything else, only, had changed. — Lauren Bird Horowitz

Noa Noah shook his head and grinned. "He no savvee me Tahitian," he explained. "He savvee me wear pants all the same white man." "You'll have to give him a course in 'Sartor Resartus,'" Sheldon laughed, as he came down and began to make friends with Satan. It chanced just then that Adamu Adam and Matauare, two of Joan's — Jack London

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

Noa Sparrow has never been much liked by people and she doesn't much care. That isn't strictly true, of course. — Menna Van Praag