Pretending to Dance Quotes

“It’s hard to move on if you don’t forgive,” he said. “It’s like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Two flights of steps bordered either side of the Hill from Hell. I didn’t know who constructed them or when, but it was sometime before I was born. Maybe even before Daddy was born. In one stretch, the steps were made of large semiflat stones. In another, wood. In a third, slate. All of them were in terrible disrepair, but it was still easier to climb them than to try to walk up the dirt road itself, especially since Stacy and I were weighed down with our backpacks, slices of pie in Tupperware containers, bottles of Pepsi, and a bunch of cassette tapes. We stopped halfway up to catch our breath. I really didn’t need to, but I could tell Stacy was not used to trudging up hills.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Law was all about harsh reality, I thought. All about facts and truth and justice. I was wrong. Practicing law lifts pretense to an art form. I pretend every day that my clients are in the right, that I am not twisting the truth to win their cases. I’ve loved the challenge and I love when I can help good people triumph, but I know the truth about myself and my work: I am a pretender of the first order. And I’m a little tired of it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“wanted to feel the security in that house. I wanted to feel the love. 55 It was eleven-thirty by the time I climbed the steps to the front porch.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Something was definitely being killed out there tonight. I shuddered.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“It’s hard to move on if you don’t forgive,” he said. “It’s like trying to dance with a lead”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“I’d tried to make his life fun and worth living. I felt as though all that effort had been snuffed out in one single second.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“felt as though we were a team. I realized, with a sense of joy and wonder, we always had been.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“gratitude quietly fill me up.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“The only thing I didn’t like was that Michael called his penis “Ralph.” I really hoped Chris didn’t have a name for his, or if he did, that it wasn’t that idiotic.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Can’t you just enjoy it for what it is?”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“You’re right, Molly girl,” he said. “Life’s too short to pick it all apart. I’ll try to do better.” “Molly, what are you still doing up?”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Was my father truly miserable? Was I so wrapped up in my own life that I didn’t even notice his unhappiness?”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“I was used to being the only important child in his life. I could tell he was making Dorianna feel important, too.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“one foot inside the nursery, and the other firmly planted in the hall.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“God, I want a child!”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“like my life with Stacy Bateman in it even more.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“wondered if the love was visible, like a big red cartoon heart over my head.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Sounds like paradise to me,” she said, and I once again had the sense that my life was at least a little bit better than hers.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Like most families, we were quickly losing our yesterdays.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“thought. He could ease sorrow, erase fear, diffuse anger. There were times, and this was one of them, when I thought he was a magician.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“I didn’t ever want to lose him.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Was it my imagination or could the two of them communicate without words?”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“When we started moving around her house, I felt like I was a million miles away from everyone and everything.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance

“Here is where this interview falls apart, I think. Here is where my lies begin. I’m relieved when Aidan goes first.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Pretending to Dance