278 Quotes by Matthew Quick

And man the great light. Even when no one is looking.

It’s so much easier to shut the refrigerator door, which is totally a metaphor, I realize, for my life.

And then one day you will look for you in the mirror and you’ll no longer be able to identify yourself – you’ll only see everyone else. You’ll know that you did what they wanted you to do. You will have assimilated. And you will hate yourself for it, because it will be too late.

Linda doesn’t like to give out her cell number to “non-industry people,” like the office workers at my high school, because she thinks she’s Donatella Versace.

Why didn’t we do this then? Probably because we had class on Monday morning. But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance. What was the worst thing that could have happened? We would have missed class.

I loved him like I loved walking through summer grass barefoot, like I loved a warm mug in my palms, like I loved driving on a long road as the sun sets in the distance. It was a good, safe, simple sort of friendship – well, at first, anyway.

It’s so quiet in my room that I wonder if this is what being dead sounds like.

So I wore the lesbian comments like a mask that kept everything I really loved private and safe and beyond the dirty grasp of the people who didn’t know the real, true me and never would.

I haven’t been home for years. My mother’s lack of a filter.