Dancing with the Sun Quotes

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do. —Helen Keller”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“And she was too tired to deal with it. Or maybe tired wasn't' the right word. Her fatigue wasn't of the physical kind. It was that dark fog that slipped in and robbed you of the desire to do anything.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“And she was too tired to deal with it. Or maybe tired wasn’t the right word. Her fatigue wasn’t of the physical kind. It was that dark fog that slipped in and robbed you of the desire to do anything. It made getting out of bed a major chore in the morning and getting back into it her most frequent thought during the day.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“through everything, good and bad, we should stand tall and follow the light. For our own growth.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“Her life was better in her safe place, where she'd successfully driven everyone out. There she didn't have to have any real conversations or expose what was really going on inside her head. She'd fine-tuned the technique. She was good at it because she'd been doing it for years.
But it was time to make a change. She needed to transform her life into something more bearable.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“became”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“She was going to hit it with everything she could. Yoga. Meditation. Walking. And she’d read about a process of pinpointing and then eliminating triggers from her diet. Some patients were seeing good results from changing their eating habits drastically to include only fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables. Now that she’d be cooking for one, it might be possible to really be strict. Yes, she had a whole new life in front of her now that she’d decided to focus on herself.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun

“For years she’d fought to keep it under control, instead of letting it control her. The doctor had said the pain was her body’s way of processing her grief, and he’d urged her to be proactive with medication, though she’d still resisted, not wanting her brain to be foggy. That meant she didn’t have a fighting chance against the bouts of insomnia that plagued her. And she didn’t like to talk about her limitations. Ever.”
― Kay Bratt, Dancing with the Sun