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

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  Needs, Matter, Making Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

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  Mother, Believe, Believe In You

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.42, 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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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

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  Real, Feel Good, Good Movie

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, 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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• 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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• When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

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  Helping, Beloved, Abandoned

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

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• ...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

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  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

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  Memories, Night, Thinking

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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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• I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

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  Broken, Giving, Together

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• I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

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  Believe, Gone, Happy Endings

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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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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• It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.

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  Running, Hurt, Pain

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