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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• 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.

  Matthew Quick

  Life, Attention, Pay

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

  Matthew Quick

  Believe, Different, Peacock

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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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• 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.

  Matthew Quick

  Different, Looks, Faces

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.116, 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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• 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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• ...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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• You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

  Matthew Quick

  Needs, Matter, Making Time

  "The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel".

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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.

  Matthew Quick

  Thinking, My Birthday, Happy Endings

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.

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  Character, Dark, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

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  Pounds, Appearance, Overweight

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

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

  Matthew Quick

  Battle, World

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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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• 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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• The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed. And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again

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  Heart, Sunday, World

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• I am practicing being kind over being right.

  Matthew Quick

  Be Kind, Kind

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• People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

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  Writing, People, Appreciate

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

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• I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

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  Father, Thinking, House

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

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  Desire, Drs, Needs

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

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