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1 " I can dance beauty into my body "
― Padma Venkatraman , A Time to Dance
2 " Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny. "
3 " You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates. "
4 " My skin tingles as I step into the music,give in to the icy thrill of pleasurethat spreads through me whenever I dance,the pleasure of leaping into a cool lake on a sweltering day. "
5 " I want to tell the nurses no scale can measurethe pain of my dreamsdancingbeyond reach. "
6 " How does the new leg feel?' I don't point out their question misses a point: even this new leg doesn't feel. "
7 " Dance isn’t about winning or losing,” he says, “it’s about enjoying how your body moves.” I "
8 " Nothing else fills me with as much elation as chasing down soaring music, catching and pinning rhythms to the ground with my feet, proud as a hunter rejoicing in his skill. The "
9 " I'm not sure I can empty myself of wishing for those able bodies I don't own. "
10 " Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you. "
11 " Chandra told me once about absolute zero, a temperature cold enough to bring the universe to a standstill. My heart feels like it's at absolute zero. "
12 " I shake my head. It was all me. My mistake. I read too much into everything. Dreamed, imagined, and let my thoughts get as out of control as my body. “Veda, "
13 " Jim was cricket practice; Govinda's the real match. Match. Get it? "
14 " I lean into his touch. He looks shy and almost as scared as I was just feeling. I burst out laughing. Never imagined we'd share being scared the first time we went out together. "What's so funny now?" "You. You look so frightened." "I am frightened." He exhales. Then smiles and slides closer to me. "
15 " It feels like Shiva destroyed my universes of possibility, like He's dancing on the ashes of my snatched away dreams. "
16 " I don't mind pushing my body to test my balance. I don't want to push my mind back to where the accident led me. "
17 " I take a step down into the space where light is an enemy but not even darkness shrouds my terror. "
18 " I'll be back in his classroom, back in competition, back on my own feet. Or rather, back on my own one foot. "
19 " My hand slips into his as though it remembers his touch and we've held hands often in a previous life. "
20 " ..., my pa and ma tell me how hard they've worked so I could have a comfortable life, how long it took to establish their firm and make it flourish, how it's my duty to earn well so I can look after them in their old age and my duty to look after their legacy that I'll inherit. "