Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook (2008)

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If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

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

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

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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 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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I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

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But Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth.

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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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When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

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

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

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

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

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