Dancing on the Edge Quotes

“There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.”
― Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge: A National Book Award-Winning YA Novel of Mental Health and Family Healing

“For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day.”
― Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge: A National Book Award-Winning YA Novel of Mental Health and Family Healing

“I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.”
― Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge: A National Book Award-Winning YA Novel of Mental Health and Family Healing

“I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.”
― Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge: A National Book Award-Winning YA Novel of Mental Health and Family Healing