278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

And so maybe it isn’t the motivating factors that matter so much as simply participating – thrusting your best true, authentic self into the universe with wild abandon. Maybe yielding to our true nature propels us forward into the great unknown, toward targets that we haven’t even dreamed up yet but exist nonetheless.

The books we read in literature classes – just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.

You ever feel like you’re sending out a light but no one sees it?

Fly! There’s a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

When I look at my father, I can see that he doesn’t get it, either, and right then and there, I realize that there’s a big part of me that my parents will never get no matter how many therapy sessions we attend – even if we have a million and one conversations about who I am.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain – and so I am.

I remember wondering how many other things I didn’t know about my parents. You only get to know so much.

Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break?

I’ve found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone.