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1 " Dear God in heaven.” Nik and Ban turned away, but Alek stood. Transfixed. “My God, y’all. She’s the worst goddamn dancer I’ve ever seen.” “Turn away. It’ll hurt your eyes. Turn away! "
2 " Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with is" Sure" said Magnus. " And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour "
3 " What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; the bass that interposes itself below the soprano’s fervour to let it climb even higher—what am I? I am the earthly gravity that keeps you on the ground. What am I, then? Body, mass, earth, dust and ashes.—You, my Cordelia, you are soul and spirit.”—Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_ "
4 " What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; the bass that interposes itself below the soprano’s fervour to let it climb even higher—what am I? I am the earthly gravity that keeps you on the ground. What am I, then? Body, mass, earth, dust and ashes.—You, my […], you are soul and spirit.”—Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_ "
5 " Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language! "
― Pablo Neruda , Passions and Impression
6 " I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette. "
7 " Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI "
― Jennifer Starzec , 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury (5k, Ballet, #1)
8 " What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.Alec hesitated. " Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." " Sure," said Magnus. " And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. " Who's Madonna?" " Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary." She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. " Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. " Tell Isabelle no." " But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested." Then tell her no twice. "
9 " A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. " Hi," she said. " Hi." " You're really cute." " I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance. "
10 " That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness. "
― Tana French , The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)
11 " A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths. "
― Angela Duckworth , Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
12 " Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shapely legs. But it will hurt; it will feel as if a sharp sword slashed through you. Everyone who sees you will say that you are the most graceful human being they have ever laid eyes on, for you will keep your gliding movement and no dancer will be able to tread as lightly as you. But every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" " Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul. "
13 " The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters. "
― , HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month
14 " If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames. "
― Shah Asad Rizvi
15 " Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems. "
16 " She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze. "
17 " When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment. "
18 " There is a Dancer in every Woman. "
― Yuki Chua
19 " I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? "
― Margaret Mead
20 " In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round. "
― Ray Bradbury , Fahrenheit 451
