51 Quotes by Matthew Dicks

Laisse les autres chanter tes louanges. Si tu n'as pas le sentiment de recevoir les honneurs que tu mérites, c'est que tu n'as pas gagné les honneurs que tu crois mériter. Fais un effort.

Everyone is someone’s devil.

Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else’s brain, and will make you more interesting at a dinner party.

It’s not our place anymore. But it’s not a new place, either. It’s not a special place for anyone anymore.

I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.

He cringes every time she tries to help him or even touch him, but he can’t tell her to stop because it’s easier for Max to cringe and suffer than speak up.

It’s very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can’t suffocate and you can’t get sick, and you can’t fall and break your head, and you can’t catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you. That happens more than all the suffocating and bumps and pneumonia combined.

Max would rather say nothing to everyone than something to one person.

They talk to kids in their regular voices and say things that they would say in their own living rooms. Their bulletin boards are always a little raggedy, and their desks are always a little messy, and their libraries are always a little out of order, but kids love them because they talk about real things with real voices and they always tell the truth.