Rhythmic Gymnastics Quotes

The protagonist of Grey Eminence was Amália, the world's first climate change artist* and the first person to exceed a billion followers on Instagram, making her a sort of global empress, unprecedented in the history of Earth. She was also Portugal's foremost performer of fado, a gold medalist in rhythmic gymnastics, excellent at baking, and capable of taming the aurochs she summoned back from extinction to revivify Lascaux. *What the author means here is that Amália was the first to view climate change itself as an art. Her oeuvre was above all a radical reinterpretation of the still life. She practiced extinction as well as large-scale action sculptures that undid or outmaneuvered natural processes such as decomposition and promoted catastrophes when opportunities--- weather-related or other--- arose.

I have been a rhythmic gymnastics instructor and pageant coach for young girls since I was sixteen," I state, combative. "That's a real job, Jesse." "A pageant coach?" He blinks. "Like beauty pageants?" "Yes," I murmur. "Like beauty pageants." "I assume you've got some experience yourself, then?" he asks, amused. "Little Miss Savannah from Alabama?" "I actually am Miss Alabama," I state with fleeting pride. Instant regret. "My oh my..." he draws out, fanning himself. "I didn't know I was in the presence of pageant royalty. What an honor.