278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

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.

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

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.

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

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

Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

A lot of female teachers do this - flirt with male students. I wonder if that's the only way they know how to interact with men. Like they use their sexuality to get what they want.