Matthew Quick Quotes

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I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

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I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.

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After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

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I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

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People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

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I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

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She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn't put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.

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It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

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You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

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You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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So I'm thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.

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I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

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People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

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Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

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Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

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I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

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My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

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Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight...

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That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

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I'm a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I'm not Nikki. I know. And I'm sorry.

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Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle—almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

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You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

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Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can't control or alter true love.

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Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

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I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

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Do you like foreign films? With subtitles? Yes. I hate those types of films. Me too, Cliff says. Mostly because - No happy endings.

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Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

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I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

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