100 Days of Sunlight Quotes

“Besides, no one has ever seen the light by being told there are darker places out there.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Weston is everything
And all at once.
Weston is gentle
And harsh.
Weston can be blindingly bright
But then he can also be
Delicately soft.
Weston is a paradox.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“This is when I usually crack a lame joke, like, “Yeah, sorry, I left my real legs at home.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“The hard thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I am drowning again. But this time I don’t need help. I don’t need a rescue. Because I am drowning in perfect beauty. I am drowning in reckless joy. I’ve fallen out of the tree. And now, I fly.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Letting go feels like giving up. But if you don’t let go, you’ll drown. I know the feeling. And it sucks. But Life sucks sometimes. And yeah, it gets back up. But you don’t have to stay on your knees.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I love you and your broken wings.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I’ve always been able to write much better than I can talk.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Visual beauty is only one form of beauty.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“And, actually, I was feeling pretty good at the time. My brothers were like individual rays of sunshine that had come crashing into my room to drive out the fragments of Despair. For a few minutes, everything was golden. And everything was okay.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“The second road was rocky, hard, and painful. It was challenging. It was unnatural. It was a mountain range. It was a fighting ring, a boxing match with Life. It was a road that would make me stronger, even if it hurt. This road was called Happiness. It tasted like insanity, like How can I possibly be happy when I have every right to be miserable?”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Well?' he asks when I don’t open my eyes and silently savor the goodness. 'What do you taste?'

I smile despite myself. 'The most amazing waffles under the sun.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Tessa shuts her eyes. Her hair is down today, falling around her face in wispy strands.

She wants to close up, give up, brace herself in the doorway.

I want to push her through the doorway.

Who cares if she falls? She’s already fallen.

Now she needs to get back up.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I know nothing. I feel everything.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Sunlight is exuberant. Thunderstorms are passionate. Two extremes, and so much better than nothing at all. Cloudy skies are like nothing at all. Apathetic. Numb. The feeling you feel when you have no idea what you feel. When everything has gone so wrong, it no longer feels wrong. There suddenly is no right or wrong. There’s just emptiness. It would be better for the clouds to cry, or better for the sun to shine. But curse this bearing wall where the sky is nothing at all.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“love is patient, love is kind. We have to show each other love.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“But the unknown is something to look forward to.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“This stubborn, kind, impertinent, obnoxiously optimistic boy is doing something to me.
And it feels good.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“So much has been taken away from me. Yet, at the same time, I can’t help but wonder if I’ve taken it away from myself. Am I choosing this? Choosing to sit on the floor and cry? Am I choosing to be defeated?”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“Weston helped me to not be afraid.
Weston took me outside and showed me the world.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I feel my heart exploding. I feel the space between our faces disappear. We kiss. And it tastes like sunlight.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“It’s similar to the feeling of coming home after a long time away—everything is familiar, but different. Nothing has changed, yet everything seems new.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“What a wondrous thing it is to create something beautiful without sight.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I’m beginning to put a gag on the voice in my head and listen more closely to the one in my heart.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“I wanted to talk about the two roads—the desert and the mountain range—and how everyone has a road to choose. And how most people choose the wrong road.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“For a moment, I’m speechless.
It’s the first time in three years anyone has ever met me without that look of pity on their face. The first time anyone has ever looked at me and not seen me. The first time anyone has stood before me – with perfectly normal legs – and complained about their own problem.
The feeling is exhilarating.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“You’ll do fine. Just... take your time. Words will come when they want to.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“We were both so weak. We were both so strong. We were boy soldiers, too young for war.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight

“My brothers were like individual rays of sunshine that had come crashing into my room to drive out the fragments of Despair. For a few minutes, everything was golden. And everything was okay.”
― Abbie Emmons, 100 Days of Sunlight