Dancing Quotes - Page 34

• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Gathering

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• Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Boys, Pages

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• His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Christian, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.261, Scholastic UK

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• Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Drawing, Body

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• On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

  Shirley Jackson

  Horse, Cat, Moon

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.54, Obelix Books

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• Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

  Yann Martel

  Trying, Toads, Fields

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Heart, Thinking, Jumping

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.157, Scholastic Inc.

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Thinking, Voice, Stage

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Old Friends

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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• ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

  John Marsden

  Dark, Yelling, Leeches

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.

  Louis MacNeice

  Wall, Autumn, Kissing

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

  Rajneesh

  Rain, Fire, Water

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• Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did.

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Annabeth, Ears

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sight, Long, Laughing

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• Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

  Jack Canfield

  Important, Sometimes, Partners

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• On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Christian, Morning

  "The Satanic Bible" by Anton Szandor LaVey, As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe, 1969.

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• Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Wall, Doors

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Boys. Listen up. We are going out for a girls’ night, where there will be dancing.” Kami did an illustrative shimmy. Angela looked resigned. Jared looked amused. “What was that?” “You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching, Jared,” Kami informed him. “Have you considered that perhaps nobody’s watching because they’re too embarrassed for you?” “Fine,” said Kami, grinning at him. “Be a hater of dances. Be a hater of joy. I don’t care. You’re not invited!

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Girl, Boys, Night

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• Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Feelings, Naked

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• Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy voices talking and laughing. She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. 'What is that?' Jason asked nervously. Piper slipped her hand into his. 'The ghosts are dancing.

  Rick Riordan

  Memories, Party, Moon

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• She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Crazy, Eye, Thinking

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cheer, Swings, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jeans, Underwear, Patterns

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1908, Simon and Schuster

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