Maybe One Day
Melissa Kantor
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.”
“I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.”
“There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.”
“Sometimes it’s hard to hear when we’ve done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.”
“I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so far away that you didn't care about it? You were floating through space and time, and nothing that happened to you mattered because nothing really could happen to you because you didn't exist?”
“And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can’t breathe and there’s snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn’t even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy’s fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could.”
“There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.”
“I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.”
“If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance.”
“I realize that,” said Ms. Daniels. “Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.”
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Book Keywords:
stereotypes, death-of-a-loved-one, death, loneliness, melissa-kantor, girls, boys, zoe, floating, dying, dance
