They're Going to Love You
Meg Howrey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The body which doesn't understand time remembers movement. Once class starts, my body falls into positions like batter filling a pan.”
“I tried to help.” I can hear her swallowing. “I did try to get through to Robert, to remind him he only has one daughter. He’s the parent. He doesn’t get to hold a grudge.” Freya used to say that to me too. A parent doesn’t get to hold a grudge, a parent’s job is to be forgiving, et cetera. It’s not an argument that satisfies me, perhaps because I’m not a parent and don’t understand unconditional love. My view is Robert should have forgiven me not because I’m his daughter and he has to, but because what I did was forgivable.”
“Everyone I know has someone they love best. I'm no ones best.”
“You know what’s more terrible than giving up a dream?” he asks. “To discover you haven’t. “It’s not about this boy,” James says. “You do see that?” And then— “Is it worth it? All this—” He shuts his eyes. “All this wreckage.” I’m not sure what he means by wreckage. Himself ? His career? His relationship with my father? Perhaps he only means life.”
“There was a time when all I wanted in the world was Bank Street. I didn’t call it that, I called it wanting to be a ballet dancer. I failed at both. But I’m not that girl anymore, and her dreams are no longer my dreams. Why should I feel like I failed her? I’m not that girl anymore. Oh, she’s still there.”
“The city skyline is too important to need to be welcoming. It tells you to get with the program or go home. I love it.”
“Isabel's relations with her mother and sister were like those knots you get in necklaces. You try to tease them out and end up putting the chain back in the jewelry box.”
“Here it comes. Here it is. A rising, an exaltation. All this wreckage. All this gorgeous, unrepeatable wreckage. Life.”
“Good person, bad person. Success, failure. Outside, inside. These are danceable truths. To be flesh of his flesh, blood of his blood. That’s danceable too. But the work of my life has been to ask undanceable questions and find a way to make ballets out of them. There’s nothing to do with this dance but be still.”
“You know what’s more terrible than giving up a dream?” he asks. “To discover you _haven’t_. “It’s not about this boy,” James says. “You do see that?” And then— “Is it worth it? All this—” He shuts his eyes. “All this wreckage.” I’m not sure what he means by wreckage. Himself ? His career? His relationship with my father? Perhaps he only means _life_.”
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