Starring Adele Astaire Quotes

“If there was one thing I’d learned in all the varied moments of my existence, it was that life itself was my most authentic performance yet.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“There was nothing better than living in the moment, embracing joy when it was there to be had, and letting go of all the little things that tried as they might to hold me back.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I nodded. “I suppose it is human nature.” Violet smiled in the soldiers’ direction. “To celebrate the victories, even when the war is still being fought.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“And I tried, I really tried. For my brother, for myself. For the memory of Charlie. For the lads whom I encouraged to keep going every day. But it was something I actively had to work at. Each day, I woke up, dragged a smile kicking and screaming onto my face, shoved out laughs, and each day it was harder.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“There’s no one in the world like you, Adele Astaire. Don’t deprive them of yourself a single second longer.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“He loved you. And you loved him. Even beyond the pain of loss, the frustration of vices, you never stopped. That’s admirable. You don’t know how to do anything without doing it fiercely. Without putting everything you have behind it. And you found your match in a man who was the Charlie in your Good-Time Charlie. A man who, even at his end, wanted only your happiness. Don’t put his memory to shame by becoming a shell of the woman he loved.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“Without hope we are left only with despair.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“She danced for herself and hoped it would be enough.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“The truth was that the pain of losing people never faded; people merely learned to handle it better, made a conscious choice to seize the day.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“A blessing it was, when books saved lives.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“That anger was one of the many secrets he’d shared late at night as we’d lain in bed during those first few weeks of joyous marital bliss. The honeymoon, where all the secrets are spilled onto the pillow when darkness falls and all you can see is the flashing white of the moon glinting off teeth and eyes.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“But, alas, our country was founded by Puritans, and it seems every now and then we settle back on our old roots.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“I would like that,” I said to Charlie, and I genuinely meant it. “I’ll show you around the city.” “Then I won’t disappoint you.” No words more magical could have been uttered to a girl who’d just dumped a man who disappointed her left and right.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“Love wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, really. It wasn’t fairy tales. Or the grandly sweeping plot of a novel. Love was work. It was a partnership.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire

“The last time I’d had a break—a real break from daily dancing—was in 1909, when the Gerrymen pulled us off our show, declaring that child actors were exploited, comparing us to youngsters in sweatshops. I won’t lie and say it didn’t feel like that sometimes.”
― Eliza Knight, Starring Adele Astaire