skater QUOTES

1 " Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room.

But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles as they swim. In winter it calls them down a slope too steep for their budding skills, and crosses their skies at the tips. It waits along the shore where snow met ice not long ago but now, unseen by sparkling eyes, a little water touches the shore, and the skater makes a circle slightly larger than intended. Death stands in the woods with a bow and arrow at dawn and dusk. And it tugs cars off the road in broad daylight, the tires spinning furiously on ice or snow, or bright autumn leaves. "

― Louise Penny , Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)

3 " Jeb moans, wraps my legs around his waist, and holds me tight. He breaks contact just long enough to whisper, " Where'd you learn to kiss like that?" " You taught me." I recover my senses and realize what I said. " In my dreams." " Oh, yeah?" He nudges the indentation on my chin with his nose. " Been dreaming of me, too, huh?" " Ever since the day we met." Finally, the truth.He flashes his dimples. " Guess it's time for us to make some dreams come true, skater girl. "

5 " Food is something I am going to have to face at least three times a day for the rest of my life. And I am not perfect. But one really bad day does not mean that I am hopeless and back at square one with my eating disorder. Olympic ice skaters fall in their quest for the gold. Heisman Trophy winners throw interceptions. Professional singers forget the words. And people with eating disorders sometimes slip back into an old pattern. But all of these individuals just pick themselves back up and do the next right thing. The ice skater makes the next jump. The football player throws the next pass. The singer finishes the song. And I am going to eat breakfast. "

― Jenni Schaefer , Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

7 " I couldn't beat people with my strength I don't have a hard shot I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. "