Skating Quotes

“There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.”
― Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

“If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!”
― Laurie Strongin, Saving Henry: A Mother's Journey

“There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.”
― Randy Gardner

“As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How many times have I told you no skating in the house? I just had these floors refinished.'
'So that's why it's extra slippery today,' mused Oliver. 'Cool.”
― Jennifer Sturman, And Then Everything Unraveled

“It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Who knows why we tic tac? ...there's more to it than a desire to irritate.”
― Georgia Blain, Darkwater

“Hand in hand, we head for the kiss and cry. Today, we're going to kiss. Sometimes, we'll cry. There'll be broken tree branches. Misunderstandings and crash landings. It turns out all relationships are like Axels. They take a leap of faith and they have their ups and downs.
But it's not about falling, it's about what you do after the fall. Whatever happens, we'll pick ourselves u. Brush ourselves off. And circle around for another attempt.”
― Katie Van Ark, The Boy Next Door

“After school both girls skated over the pond. What a beautiful sight. They said they could see right to the bottom of the lake through the ice and it's like another world down there.”
― Darlene M. Reierson, North Country Homesteader

“As kids we went to the Trenton, FL roller skating rink. It is a funeral home now. We all lived a Southern Gothic children's book.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“If I could, I would ask the world to make me skates so that I could find its frozen water and set myself free to smile, laugh, dance and cheer.

I'd see the boundaries that would be in a world frozen in its place and they would keep me safe, away from where the waters warm, away from the stares, away from the thoughts that melt and tear.

I would ask the world to skate with me, looking at the gladness I had found, knowing, really knowing, there was nothing left to fear.

I think then we would be free to live life as we could, with more in common than apart, the fog would lift, the confusion would end and true understanding would hold us dear.”
― Liane Holliday Willey, Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition

“I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”
― Debi Thomas

“I feel like skating taught me to carve my own path and really applauded the weirdos in a way I could identify with.”
― Aesop Rock

“Skate videos constantly introduced me to music I would have never heard otherwise. So many days and nights from my youth were spent piling into someone’s car and traveling to other towns and cities to hit some skate spots and inevitably meet all sorts of people from different backgrounds.”
― Aesop Rock