Matthew Quick Quotes

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If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

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Stay Strong, Block, Clouds

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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

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Needs, Matter, Making Time

"The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel".

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Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

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Opportunity, Thinking, Different

Matthew Quick (2012). “Boy21”, p.157, Hachette UK

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You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

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Believe, Different, Peacock

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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.

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Life, Attention, Pay

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I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

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Believe, Want, Happy Endings

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.

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Different, Looks, Faces

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

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Desire, Needs, Action

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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

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Sky, Bird, Brave

Matthew Quick (2014). “The Good Luck of Right Now”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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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.

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Happiness, Real, Feel Good

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, Sarah Crichton Books

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I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.

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Sorry, People, Letters

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.285, Macmillan

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...but Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth.

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Lying, Talking, Psychics

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.

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Thinking, My Birthday, Happy Endings

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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.

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Feel Better, Cosmos, Looks

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Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend, and you gotta make sure that it’s mended and you’re getting in the way of that right now, okay, because she’s sensitive and she’s smart, she’s artistic. This is a great girl, you gotta be respectful to that. Come on, let me walk you to your car, you’re a better guy than this.

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Girl, Hurt, Fun

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The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed

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Heart, Sunday, World

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Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

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Battle, World

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most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

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People, Silver, Ability

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

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Helping, Abandoned, Needed Help

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

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Daughter, Heart, Thinking

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

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Teaching, Thinking, Think For Yourself

Matthew Quick (2013). “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”, p.30, Hachette UK

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

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Nice, People, Should

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After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

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Powerful, Silly, Thinking

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.

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Hate, Cliffs, Happy Endings

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

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I am trying to be kind instead of right.

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Trying, Be Kind, Kind

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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