278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

The Nike swoop, the three Adidas stripes, the little Polo player on a horse, the Hollister seagull, the symbols of Philadelphia’s professional sports teams, even our high school mascot that you athletes wear to battle other schools – some of you wear our Mustang to class even when there is no sporting event scheduled. These are your symbols, what you wear to prove that your identity matches the identity of others. Much like the Nazis had their swastika.

She gazes into her own pupils and sees the void that opened up inside of her, swallowing everything like some black hole of happiness...

What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future – your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose – a reason.

When I read the actual story – how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can’t ever be with her no matter how hard he tries – I feel like ripping the book in half and calling up Fitzgerald and telling him his book is all wrong, even though I know Fitzgerald is probably deceased.

You better watch out, or you’re going to be defeated by pessimism!

So I pull Tifanny closer, kiss the hard spot between her perfectly plucked eyebrows, and after a deep breath, I say, “I think I need you too.

So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.

There is a price to pay for pushing beyond everyone else’s answers, and what I’m finding out is that I’m more than willing to pay it.

And how stories and objects and people and pretty much everything can blink out of existence at any time.