Matthew Quick Quotes - Page 3

Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.