“My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned
with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to
the sun.”

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American writer 1965

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist

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“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

“If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”

Joyce Carol Oates book First Love: A Gothic Tale

Source: First Love: A Gothic Tale

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“Do you see it?
Do you see that sunflower, raising its head
Glaring at the sun?
Its head almost eclipses the sun
Yet even when there is no sun
Its head still glows.”

Mang Ke (1951) Chinese writer

"Sunflower in the Sun" ( trans. Jonathan Stalling and Yibing Huang https://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2010/prose/PushOpenTheWindow.htm)