Sunlight Finds You Quotes

“before I met him”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“Some of us are like that with what scares us. If we know it’s coming”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“Don’t,” I said. “We covered all that.” I didn’t want another apology. It was like she kept handing me umbrellas. Now that I’d accepted one, I had no need for another.”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“I can’t say a particular sight or experience made me start to question my resolve. It was more that I just started thinking about it. I’d grown older, and a little wiser. I knew how easily I could settle into certainty, and be completely wrong.”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“The same was true of the nicer nurses, and one of the doctors, too. He was an old man, and he would make small talk with me during exams—he’d ask me if I thought it was going to snow soon, and if I’d ever been sledding, that kind of thing, and I knew, even then, he was doing this because he understood that putting my feet in the stirrups felt to me like punishment, so by the time any doctor came in I was usually trembling with cold and fear. I imagine it was the same for a lot of the girls there, because none of the doctors who came in seemed surprised to find me crying, or trying not to. But the one doctor, the old one, was kind to me, and though that didn’t fix everything or even anything, I do remember it, even now.”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“He nodded. “In hindsight”—he looked at the table—“if I didn’t want to be told what to do anymore, the army probably wasn’t the best choice.”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

“Some of us are like that with what scares us. If we know it's coming, we rush to it. The dread is worse than the thing itself.”
― Laura Moriarty, Sunlight Finds You