Maybe One Day Quotes

“Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“Sometimes it’s hard to hear when we’ve done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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?”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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, Maybe One Day

“This is the worst thing that will ever happen, I thought, and as I stared into Olivia’s enormous green eyes, I knew she was thinking the same thing. This is the worst thing that will happen to us in our entire lives.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“I realize that,” said Ms. Daniels. “Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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, Maybe One Day

“That's the thing about dying. Nobody knows how long it takes.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“If you realize life is short, you break up with your gay boyfriend and get a real boyfriend.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“It's insane to think how fast the unthinkable becomes the normal.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“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.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“Dancing had been how I knew I was alive. How I knew I was me. Without it, I somehow... wasn't.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day

“Dance is one thing to do with your life. But it is not the only thing.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day