The Dancing Master Quotes

“Don't allow any man to treat you as less than you are.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same could be said the other way around. We all of us fall short now and again, and disappoint someone dear to us, or ourselves. Thankfully, my parents have always been the forgiving sort.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“(Alec is teaching Miss Midwinter how to dance.)
"No." He released his hand and stepped away from her.
She faltered. "Don't you want-?"
He shook his head. "Not like this. Not sneaking around and playing games. It is beneath you. Beneath me. You, Miss Midwinter, are a lady. Don't allow any man to treat you as less than you are.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“Still, she would not have married a man she knew full well did not love her, had there seemed any possible hope of a future with one who did. A man she had loved with every fragment of her broken heart.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“I have not yet proven myself."
"I don't care if you succeed or not."
"But I do. And pretending. there is a future for us, allowing myself to hope, to-" he reached out and touched her soft cheek.
"It would only make it more difficult for me when the inevitable happens." He held her gaze, willing her to see all the sentiments he knew he should not express.
"The inevitable?"
He sighed. "When you marry someone else." There he'd said it. What should she do now, now that he had taken her no doubt light flirtation and carried it out to its logical conclusion like a killjoy?
"Who says it's inevitable?" She pouted, and he saw a glimpse of the adorable little girl she's once been.
He smiled indulgently. "I do." He leaned forward to kiss her on the cheek.
"And it's time that you accepted that fact as well."
He resolutely stepped to the door and gestured for her to precede him from the room.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“You're wrong, Miss Midwinter. Though I may not have approved of everything you've done, it wasn't because I didn't admire you, but because I did."
She looked up then, a tentative smile brightening her face.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master

“She looked down, kicking a little clump of grass with her slipper." I suppose you will look at me differently now. "
"How so?"
"Now that you know I am not who you thought I was. Who I thought I was."
"Oh, are you not human after all?" He teased, "Are you actually a woodland water Sprite or famed West Country pixie?"
"No."
He took a step nearer.
"You are still Lady Amelia's pride and joy. Still headstrong, still a bruising rider and righter of wrongs, still the bravest and most foolish woman that I know, still determined to lead ever dance, and still and incorrigible flirt. Is that not true?"
She hesitated, torn between offense and amusement. "Yes, I...I suppose it is."
"Then you are still exactly the woman I thought."
"Very funny.”
― Julie Klassen, The Dancing Master