Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Tiny Pretty Things:(Showing 11 of 11)
“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
“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.”
“dance the pain”
“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
“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.”
“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”
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
