Phantom's Dance Quotes

“After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there was a schedule to be followed and I was so far behind I’d never get caught up.”
― Lesa Howard, Phantom's Dance

“You have to admit, it would be cool," Van said. "Think about it. The Wakefield Center could have its own Phantom of the Opera."

Jenna raised a halting hand. "Whoa, wait a minute there, Andrew Llyod Webber. There is no ghost. All this was the two of you, wasn't it?" She pointed an accusing finger at the boys. "Admit it.”
― Lesa Howard, Phantom's Dance

“Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see me perform in a famous ballet. In my fantasy, there was no panic attack. I was free to dance. Free to be me.”
― Lesa Howard, Phantom's Dance

“Sometimes the stage terrifies me,” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.”

Solitude can be freeing,” he said.”
― Lesa Howard, Phantom's Dance

“But you don’t have to let this define you anymore. Leave it here -” he indicated the stage “- where it can fuel rather than fell you.”
― Lesa Howard, Phantom's Dance