Madeline

“He said it was strange, how we were shaped by so many things we would never remember and had no control over.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“Words, moreover, can get in the way of dancing. They signal self-conscious thought, and the moment they play through a dancer's mind her concentration and the way she responds physically to music risk changing. Words can distance a dancer from the music and from her own impulses, and make her movement appear remote and flat.”
― Jennifer Homans, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

“It's still irresistible, the idea that we meant anything to them, given how much they meant to us. How much they mean to us still.

None of it had anything to do with us.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“I squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that’s hard to unravel.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers