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

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

“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.”

“Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.”

“The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.”

“The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”

“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.”

“It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.”

“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”

“Once the second child comes into existence, the attention will start shifting to the newly-born baby.”