The Dance of the Dolls Quotes

“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls