Melissa Kantor Quotes

Grace, Chloe’s friend

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.

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.

Apparently, he was too bust living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

People never think things that are true are funny.

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

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

I realize that, said Ms. Daniels. Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.

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

Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?

Prince Charming was requesting presence tonight.

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

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.

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

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

You were sleeping? said Princess One.No, I said. Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.

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.

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

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...

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 j...