Quotes from Melissa Kantor

A breakup is the single most traumatic event in the life of a woman outside of a death. Some women can take years to recover.

And then I thought that it wasn't fair that at seventeen you could make choices that you might regret for the rest of your life because you really had no idea what you were doing and the stakes were just too high.

I'm sorry, I got you all snotty and wet.

Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.

It was strange how we could talk so much and say so little.

You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.

For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance.

That's the thing about dying. Nobody knows how long it takes.

There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable.

Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

and a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.

You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.

It's insane to think how fast the unthinkable becomes the normal.

Trying to imagine heaven could be like... trying to picture the fourth dimension. We can't do it. But that doesn't mean it's not there.

If you realize life is short, you break up with your gay boyfriend and get a real boyfriend.

Dance is one thing to do with your life. But it is not the only thing.

Grace, Chloe's friend

Dancing had been how I knew I was alive. How I knew I was me. Without it, I somehow... wasn't.

After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?

Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.

Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.

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.