The Secret Life of Sunflowers Quotes

“If you hear a voice within say you cannot do something, then by all means, do that thing, and that voice will be silenced.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Fear no storms, turn in gratitude toward the light.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“being challenged is the only way to grow.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Refusals will not kill me. Ridicule will not kill me. My feelings might be hurt, I might be embarrassed, I might want the ground to open beneath my feet, and others might wish the same for me, but I will not die. I will keep trying. I will live in gratitude, my face pointed toward the light.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“I imagine happiness like needlepoint. Dots of color, precious moments placed next to each other as time passes, small joys doled out over a lifetime.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Sunflowers are adaptable, for one. Seventy species. You plant them somewhere, and they’ll figure out how to grow. They’ll come up in the rich loam of rivers as easily as in arid, poor dirt. The worse the soil, the bigger they flower. They’re scrappy as hell, but they always look like stars.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“All are made exceptional by necessity,”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Sunflowers are adaptable, Violet had told me not long ago. You plant them somewhere, and they’ll figure out how to grow. They’ll come up in the rich loam of rivers as easily as in arid, poor dirt. The worse the soil, the bigger they flower. They’re scrappy as hell.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“The meaning of life is to live it.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“You succeed by not failing.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Decisions made in haste are repented at leisure.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“something,”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“that? “If you hear a voice within say you cannot do something, then by all means, do that thing, and that voice will be silenced.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Mom sat up straighter, not a small accomplishment since she’d already been stiff enough to give ramrods inspiration. She’d been holding her solemn-Nancy-Reagan expression for so long, I feared her features might freeze that way permanently. I’d mistakenly called it a discreetly-grieving-Jackie-Kennedy look when she’d arrived. She’d corrected me with “Don’t be crass, Emsley. I would never look like a Democrat.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“And you have to give it to them wrapped in sex.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“You have to know what to give them and when.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Men want three things from women: stimulation, adoration, and nurturing.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Thank you, Violet.” I straightened her blanket. “I know this is not the end. You’ve just gone ahead to the next party. Save me some champagne.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“No more carefully constructed sentences.” His tone elevated. “People will call with the most trifling matters the moment the fancy strikes them. My dear, I expect your mother, to call me in the middle of reading my morning papers to tell me what she had for breakfast.” He chopped through the air with the envelope he held. “Mark my words, ladies. Part of civilization itself will be lost.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“I was happy for her, I truly was, but I still grieved all I had lost. She was right, however. I could not remain mired in that pain. I kept reminding myself of the sunflowers. Fear no storms, turn in gratitude toward the light.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Yellow is the color of the sun. We survive the cold and the darkness of the night in the hope that the sun will rise in the morning.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Refusals will not kill me. Ridicule will not kill me. My feelings might be hurt, I might be embarrassed, I might want the ground to open beneath my feet, and others might wish the same for me, but I will not die. I will keep”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“All are made exceptional by necessity”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“If life was a rolling river, friendship was the life raft.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“You’ve just gone ahead to the next party. Save me some champagne.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“Sunflowers will tire of the sun before I tire of you,”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“You let your smile shine from your soul.” Violet’s love-laden voice wrapped around me. “You let courage beam from your heart.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“You let your smile shine from your soul.” Violet’s love-laden voice wrapped around me. “You let courage beam from your heart. The night is yours, honey. You drive this auction like it’s a Lamborghini.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“ambulatory.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“I leaned against my husband and imagined an entire vast field of vibrant golden petals. Thousands of these flowers, unworried about the world, unafraid of the storms, turned as one in gratitude toward the light, toward the sun.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers