26 Quotes by Matthew Norman

Power means never having to say you’re sorry.

We’re all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged.

They didn’t hate her when you were in high school. They made fun of her. She was the butt of jokes. But they didn’t hate her. That’s what people do now. They don’t disagree, they hate.

Then we lapse into silence. It’s these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.

Married silence is a specific kind of silence, typically one in which the woman goes mute while the man pretends as if it’s perfectly normal that she hasn’t spoken in hours.

Like pretty much every cat I’ve ever met, Jeter swings back and forth between loving me and trying to murder me, so I never know exactly what I’m getting.

This house has endured three of my Dad’s four wives, and so over the last few decades it’s been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.

In most companies, no one really notices you until they need you. And even then, when someone wanders into your office or IMs you and finds that you’re gone, they just assume you’re doing something constructive. Sitting in some horrible, pointless meeting. Stealing office supplies. Weeping gently in a bathroom stall on the fourth floor. Once you’ve established yourself as reasonably competent, you can pretty much come and go as you please. And.

Sometimes in life, it doesn’t matter that you’ve just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven’t brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you’re wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.