Dancing Quotes - Page 35

• Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Eye, Hands

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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• But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Alex Sheathes

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Fire, Flames

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• Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.

  Anna McPartlin

  Letting Go, Song, Moving

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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• Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Talent, Whistling

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• I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.

  Emma Watson

  Dream, Wings, Your Dreams

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• What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you know how much trouble you may have gotten me in?" Adrian grinned. "Nah. They all feel bad for you. You'll achieve martyrdom after dancing with a mean, wicked vampire. Job security with the Alchemists.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Baby, Stupid, Grandma

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• A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Eye, Men, Soul

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• That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Sea, Leader, Sailing

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• Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him." The room exploded in a hubbub. Charlotte raced over to Sophie; Henry called after her; Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle.

  Cassandra Clare

  Couple, Years, Circles

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.867, Simon and Schuster

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• In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.

  Patrick Carman

  Summer, Morning, Eye

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• I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

  Ava Gardner

  Night, Years, People

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• Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, House, Trying

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.58, Macmillan

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• A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

  Aime Cesaire

  Men, Bears, Life Is

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• YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Scum, Jordan

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• I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dance, Flawless, Ballerina

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

  Homer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it." "When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Thinking, Making Love

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorry,” she said breathlessly. “I got lost in the crowd.” “I noticed,” he said. “One second I was dancing with you, and the next you were gone and a very persistent werewolf was trying to get the buttons on my jeans undone.” Sebastian chuckled. “Girl or boy werewolf?” “Not sure. Either way, they could have used a shave.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Sorry, Boys

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Morning, Color, Giving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.106, e-artnow

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• His frown was less dark and more confused. "What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes." "And you let some strange college boy grind all over you for your first time? That's stupid, Ali." Not going to be embarrassed, not going to be embarrassed. "First, he wasn't grinding on me, and second, you're no better than him." A solid minute of silence, then "You are terrible for my ego, you know that?" I could say the same to him.

  Gena Showalter

  Confused, Stupid, Dark

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Color, White, Rainbow

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

  Buddy Hackett

  Anger, Angry At Someone, Should

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