Matthew Quick Quotes

We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.

I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.