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Dolores Boyle is a tall, blonde, slender girl who is one of Miss Marsalles’s students. She was born with Down syndrome, and she attends Greenhill School with other children who also have Down syndrome. At Miss Marsalles’s party, she skillfully performs a piano piece called The Dance of the Happy Shades. She captures everyone’s attention with her beautiful musicality.
Dolores Boyle Quotes in Dance of the Happy Shades
The Dance of the Happy Shades quotes below are all either spoken by Dolores Boyle or refer to Dolores Boyle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Dance of the Happy Shades
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The mothers sit, caught with a look of protest on their faces, a more profound anxiety than before, as if reminded of something that they had forgotten they had forgotten; the white-haired girl sits ungracefully at the piano with her head hanging down, and the music is carried through the open door and the windows to the cindery summer street.
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[…] people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one.
To Miss Marsalles such a thing is acceptable, but to other people, people who live in the world, it is not.
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Dolores Boyle Quotes in Dance of the Happy Shades
The Dance of the Happy Shades quotes below are all either spoken by Dolores Boyle or refer to Dolores Boyle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Dance of the Happy Shades
Quotes
The mothers sit, caught with a look of protest on their faces, a more profound anxiety than before, as if reminded of something that they had forgotten they had forgotten; the white-haired girl sits ungracefully at the piano with her head hanging down, and the music is carried through the open door and the windows to the cindery summer street.
Related Characters:
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
[…] people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one.
To Miss Marsalles such a thing is acceptable, but to other people, people who live in the world, it is not.
