- Title Card: Long before people sang, they danced. Out of their dancing grew a new world, strange and wonderful - the world of ballet. This is a story of that world, of those who dance, of those who love and of those who hate, and of one who loved too much.
- Mlle. Ariane Bouchet: Why Meg, you're trembling. Are you cold?
- 'Meg' Merlin: No, Mademoiselle, it's from you're holding my hand.
- La Darina: Meg, it wasn't easy for me at first, knowing that I wouldn't dance again. It isn't easy now, but...
- 'Meg' Merlin: I know, I'm a ballerina too.
- La Darina: Remember the old saying, I used to cry because I had no shoes, until I saw a child who had no feet.
- Fred Carleton: Your little sparrow again.
- Mlle. Ariane Bouchet: My little shadow, you mean. Meg, what on earth are you doing?
- La Darina: Mademoiselle, how can you be so shallow?
- Mlle. Ariane Bouchet: But, my life is my own.
- La Darina: No one's life is entirely his own. Your's less than any other I know.
- La Darina: Oh, Meg, I have such great hopes for you. I've told you that, haven't I?
- 'Meg' Merlin: Yes, ma'am.
- La Darina: In you I'm going to dance again. You're not going to fail me, are you?
- 'Meg' Merlin: I'd die first.
- Fred Carleton: A crazy little creature.
- Mr. Carleton's Date: A midget, huh?
- Fred Carleton: No. No. A little girl, a child. Meg's her name.