The Ballerinas
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Top 10 Best Quotes
“think,” he said, “that a man who is surrounded exclusively by women, without a single male friend, shouldn’t be entirely trusted. A man who ignores anybody who can’t further his career or whom he doesn’t want to sleep with can’t be entirely trusted. I think that a thirty-six-year-old man who blames his parents for everything that’s currently wrong in his life…” He dropped the parallel, paused. “I think he’s dangerous.”
“Wouldn’t that be a tidy ending to the story? Nice and neat, all smoothed over. The abuser gets pushed out the window, saved by female friendship and camaraderie and the indelible bonds that men like to think bind women together. They never see the places where those bonds fray; they don’t care enough to look.”
“When you're the best at something, your world is small - your life is small.”
“What are you supposed to do when you still have a teenager's dreams but you somehow got old?”
“We are all stuck in our own stories. And it is so easy to see someone through only one lens: the role they play in yours. [Delphine Léger]”
“Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]”
“This is the promise we dancers make to each other: the world might not remember you, but the other ballerinas always will.”
“St. Petersburg’s wedding-cake mansions were an oil painting, Paris’s hôtels particuliers a watercolor. St. Petersburg’s skies were Technicolor, Paris’s a muted pastel. Petersburgians were hard, unyielding, while Parisians were—something else. Scanning my emails on the Métro, I”
“In the studio mirrors, their bodies become architecture; their movements, traffic. They are the only citizens of their private city, borders closed off long ago.”
“Everything good is risky....The thing that you have to remember is that if you -don't- risk anything, you risk everything. [Lindsay Price, to Delphine Léger]”
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Book Keywords:
lifestory, roles-in-life, airports, risk
