Sona Charaipotra > Quotes

“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“It always feels like death. At least at first. Your muscles stretch and burn until they might rip. The bones in your hips threaten to rotate right out of their sockets. Your spine lengthens and twists into impossible shapes. The veins in your arms swell, blood pulsing through them. Your fingers tremble as you try to hold them taut but graceful, just so. Your toes jam into a pretty pink box, battering your feet with constellations of blisters and bruises. But it all looks effortless and beautiful. I hope. Because that's all that really matters.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“dance the pain”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“She doesn't care what it means to be a dancer. What sacrifices it takes. And she knows that Mr. K will easily let me go. That I'm nothing. I can be replaced. Girls are a dime a dozen in ballet-not like the boys who are treated like princes. Another girl will be plucked from some audition somewhere.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Don't you know by now? You're not meant to fit in. You're one of a kind.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Shiny Broken Pieces

“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Here, we're just girls playing dress up- the best part of ballet.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

“Don’t carry worries around," she always says. "They’re heavy.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Before us, after us, there is always the cycle of life and death. We’re mere drops in the ocean, Saira, but it’s hard to remember that as we fall.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Symptoms of a Heartbreak

“I pull a bobby pin out from my bun and push it into the old lock, waiting for the tiny bolt to ease downward and click out of place. I like to be in places where I'm not supposed to be-in my old high school's attic or in the empty house in my San Fran neighborhood. There's a tiny thrill in picking a lock and exploring a space that others want closed up.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“As the elevator descends, tears wet my mask and become so furious that it can't catch them all. Not angry or bitter ones. Little girl tears. Sad tears. Unexpected tears.”
― Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton, Shiny Broken Pieces

“I’m sure it is.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Shiny Broken Pieces

“I fold into him, and lose myself in that one perfect moment, knowing how very, very rare this kind of joy is.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things

“Bitterness feeds on the host.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Shiny Broken Pieces

“Ballet makes you all so sad. You never used to be like this.”
― Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things