Finding Miss Sunshine Quotes

“If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.”
― Heidi Tankersley, Finding Miss Sunshine: How the Worst News of My Teenage Life Sent Me on One Giant Adventure Back to Health

“The biggest question of all was tinged with hope: Is it possible I can be completely well again?
And more importantly, could I be brave enough to dare to believe it?”
― Heidi Tankersley, Finding Miss Sunshine: How the Worst News of My Teenage Life Sent Me on One Giant Adventure Back to Health

“Food was my friend that day.
Little did I know it would take nearly seven years to break my unhealthy relationship with food. I had to end a relationship that was one-sided. I was very selfish, and food was very good to me. It kept giving, and I kept taking, and both of us cared very little for the damage it was doing to me, both psychologically and physically.”
― Heidi Tankersley, Finding Miss Sunshine: How the Worst News of My Teenage Life Sent Me on One Giant Adventure Back to Health

“Today, I hold firm to my ability to say "no" to everything that doesn't fall under the umbrella of my ultimate gifts. If it doesn't allow me to offer my best self to the world, it's a graceful "no.”
― Heidi Tankersley, Finding Miss Sunshine: How the Worst News of My Teenage Life Sent Me on One Giant Adventure Back to Health