278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

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

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

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn’t know anymore than I did.

You may exist in this world – but I exist too and I will not yield.

I’m pretty sure that this is the part of my movie when something surprising will happen, so I am trusting in God, who I know will not let me down. If I have faith, if I go to that special place, something beautiful will happen when the sun sets – I can feel it.

I’d like to feel okay all the time – to have the ability to sit and function without feeling so much pressure, without feeling as though blood is going to spurt from my eyes and fingers and toes if I don’t do something.

It’s okay to love people who aren’t perfect. People who still have work to do on themselves.

Maybe that’s why adults drink, gamble, and do drugs – because they can’t get naturally lit anymore. Maybe we lose that ability as we get older.

He’s just going to buy alcohol or drugs, you know”, Lauren said, which made me sad, because she didn’t know that man at all, let alone whether he had a dependency problem.