Marta Molnar > 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

“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

“being challenged is the only way to grow.”
― 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

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

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

“Decisions made in haste are repented at leisure.”
― 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

“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

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

“I just want to do something creative.” I want to build something, a process where along the way I can also build a new me. I need something big, something all-consuming. I need this project to save me.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“Still, I don’t want to understand the rich half as much as I want to be them.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“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

“can’t change the past, but… The present moment is mine to mold. And the future grows from the present.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“The only question, through all life’s endless battles. What are you going to do about it? No other question exists. It should be stapled on telephone poles down on every street. Not How will I get over this? Not Why me? Not Why is life unfair?”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“Does the fierce opposition not scare you, Mrs. Candee?” “Why should it? I promise you, I shall survive people’s disapproval. I survived the sinking of the Titanic.”
― Marta Molnar, Raising The Titanic: A powerful novel of resilience and hope, inspired by a true story

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

“When I first saw it, I felt as if I were witnessing color being born…”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers

“lamenting how unfair life can be to those of us who possess a free spirit.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“I want someone to tell me that it’s going to work out. That I won’t lose my mind, or myself. That I won’t fall apart.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“sunflowers. Fear no storms, turn in gratitude toward the light.”
― 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 on 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

“She grew up speaking Limousin, a dialect of Occitan that people speak in the southwest of France. She had her learning before the Third Republic decided to modernize us all and forbid any other language than French at school.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

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

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

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

“A poor man isn’t allowed near any opportunity that would help him out of his poverty. While a rich man could commit murder and walk free.”
― Marta Molnar, Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot

“Matrimony holds many pleasures,” he said softly. “A man and a woman discovering who each other are. Falling in love, based on the sure knowledge of each other, instead of wild hopes and fantasies.” He took my hands. “Then growing together.”
― Marta Molnar, The Secret Life of Sunflowers