“Using only audio software and recordings of ducks quacking and splashing in water, I make intergender music. That way you can ponder if you are truly Disney Trans enough for modern society while you dance with yourself.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
Source: The Dance of the Dolls
“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
Source: The Dance of the Dolls
“I scurried through the halls trying not to feel intimidated by the walls lined with pictures of elegant people trapped in moments of extreme contortion. You almost felt like their hips were following you as you moved around the room.”
Source: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
“Everything beautiful and powerful is high risk. Along the way, we gain patience and perseverance by accepting life's ebb and flow, ups and downs.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“Even though I am not fond of dancing, I do it to demonstrate to my rivals and for you to compare me to my age. Despite that, physically, fitness is a miracle.”
“The dancer's body in performance is, therefore, an act of mediation between the physical vocabulary of the dance form and personal conceptions of identity.”
Source: Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, And Harem Fantasy
“Madame Chalamet, may I assist you?' The duke’s voice was politely detached, as if he was asking a poor relation to partner him at a dance held at an inferior establishment.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
Source: The Dance of the Dolls
“Each turn is a painting, each pause a poem, in a choreography that exalts grace.”
Source: Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow