Dance Quotes

“She might be a girl, but when the time came, she would have the heart of a warrior, until her heart beat its last.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“If she had ever picked up a sword, she would have been both deadly and beautiful”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“You are the reason I will fight my whole life long, so that I can keep you, and keep you safe. For I could stand losing each and every city in the kingdom, and even the throne itself, but I would not survive losing you. I love you, Mai, my dancer, my balance, and all the honour and glory a man could hope for. All I can offer in return is myself, as your prince.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“I may have pretended to be a man, but I could not tolerate smelling like one.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“A girl who could put a grown man on his arse as easily as breathing wouldn't have been the victim of stolen kisses, Yi realised. It was a lucky man who could touch her at all. The thought gave him courage, bolstered by the panic in her eyes.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“but I would ask for more from you, Mai. I want you to be my friend and my lover, as I will be yours. I owe you my life, and I will give it to you freely, one day at a time, every day I have, until we join our ancestors in the spirit realm." Her eyes held wonder, but also warmth.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“she swept his legs out from under him and snatched the sword out of his hand.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“He thought he heard her sigh, and her shoulders slumped the slightest bit. That was all the warning he had before”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“The last time we sparred, I distinctly recall you cursing my ancestors for begetting children with barbarian war gods.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“Your first battle, and you kill three men in the time it takes me to kill one. Did one of your ancestors sleep with a barbarian war god or something?" Yi asked.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“The movement was oddly graceful, stirring something inside Yi that he didn't understand.”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold

“Be swift as the wind. Plunder like fire, stand as firm as the mountains, and move like a thunderbolt,”
― Demelza Carlton, Dance: Cinderella Retold