“ 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 fa… Melissa Kantor
“ 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… Melissa Kantor
“ 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 d… Melissa Kantor
“ [W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughter… Melissa Kantor
“ Dancing had been how I knew I was alive. How I knew I was me. Without it, I somehow... wasn't. Melissa Kantor
“ Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. Melissa Kantor
“ 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. Melissa Kantor
“ 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. Melissa Kantor
“ Looking back at that conversation, I can’t help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn’t let Livvie say the words, they wouldn’t be true? Melissa Kantor
“ TEN BREAKUP COMMANDMENTS:1. Move out2. You cannot be friends3. Do not process this break-up together4. Do not bad mouth your ex to other people5. Get rid of anything that reminds of him6. Start and ex… Melissa Kantor
“ Even though we'd never met, imagining being dumped by Gene made me want to die. What was the point of going out with someone? What was the point of falling in love? The whole thing was enough to make… Melissa Kantor
