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Top 20 Matt Ruff Quotes (2025 Update)

Matt Ruff Quote: “That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse.”

1. “That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she’d be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.”

2. “A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she’d be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don’t get mad.”

3. “But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don’t get mad.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “April, she had died. April could still be a very cold month in Ithaca, though it was certainly not the best month for dying of exposure. A depressed person would have a better bet walking along the edge of one of the gorges and “accidentally” falling in. Of course the man Jessop had done neither; hand-making his daughter’s tombstone had probably kept him too occupied to even consider suicide. Yes. That was it; that was the key. An act of creation in the face of loss.”

4. “April, she had died. April could still be a very cold month in Ithaca, though it was certainly not the best month for dying of exposure. A depressed person would have a better bet walking along the edge of one of the gorges and “accidentally” falling in. Of course the man Jessop had done neither; hand-making his daughter’s tombstone had probably kept him too occupied to even consider suicide. Yes. That was it; that was the key. An act of creation in the face of loss.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “What you going to do?” she cried. “You break my neck, and the what? You think I won’t come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.”

5. “What you going to do?” she cried. “You break my neck, and the what? You think I won’t come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “I’m saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility. You.”

6. “I’m saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility. You.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “You can’t buy goodwill with money that ain’t yours. It’s not a favor to pay what’s owed.”

7. “You can’t buy goodwill with money that ain’t yours. It’s not a favor to pay what’s owed.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “You made love to a dream. Have I ever lied to you, George? Then remember what I told you: Whoever you love will be just like me. Any woman seen through love’s eyes is as perfect as you thought me to be.” “No,” George said. “There’s no one like you.” “They’re all like me, George, if you see with your heart. But some of them stay.”

8. “You made love to a dream. Have I ever lied to you, George? Then remember what I told you: Whoever you love will be just like me. Any woman seen through love’s eyes is as perfect as you thought me to be.” “No,” George said. “There’s no one like you.” “They’re all like me, George, if you see with your heart. But some of them stay.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.”

9. “Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “The law’s not for colored people, not down there .”

10. “The law’s not for colored people, not down there .”

Matt Ruff Quote: “He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.”

11. “He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen.”

12. “White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Oh, what? You’re too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that’s logical.”

13. “Oh, what? You’re too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that’s logical.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Something else that puzzles me about other people is that a lot of them don’t know their purpose in life. This usually does bother them – more than not being able to remember being born, anyway – but I can’t even imagine it. Part of knowing who I am is knowing why I am, and I’ve always known who I am, from the first moment.”

14. “Something else that puzzles me about other people is that a lot of them don’t know their purpose in life. This usually does bother them – more than not being able to remember being born, anyway – but I can’t even imagine it. Part of knowing who I am is knowing why I am, and I’ve always known who I am, from the first moment.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Warren Dandridge had insisted that poker was a Christian game: Players who practiced virtue – learning and respecting the odds, keeping their emotions in check, managing their bankrolls intelligently – tended to prosper, while those who succumbed to vice – chasing long shots, letting passion rule reason – went the way of all unrepentant sinners.”

15. “Warren Dandridge had insisted that poker was a Christian game: Players who practiced virtue – learning and respecting the odds, keeping their emotions in check, managing their bankrolls intelligently – tended to prosper, while those who succumbed to vice – chasing long shots, letting passion rule reason – went the way of all unrepentant sinners.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Montrose could have simply forbidden him to read such things. Atticus knew other sons whose fathers had done that, who’d thrown their comic books and Amazing Stories collections into the trash. But Montrose, with limited exceptions, didn’t believe in book-banning. He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.”

16. “Montrose could have simply forbidden him to read such things. Atticus knew other sons whose fathers had done that, who’d thrown their comic books and Amazing Stories collections into the trash. But Montrose, with limited exceptions, didn’t believe in book-banning. He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around.”

17. “Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “It never fails,” Montrose said. “No matter what they do to you, afterwards it’s like nothing happened. You’re supposed to just be grateful you’re still breathing.”

18. “It never fails,” Montrose said. “No matter what they do to you, afterwards it’s like nothing happened. You’re supposed to just be grateful you’re still breathing.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “You’d be a better Christian if you learned how to read, Ruby had told him. Cain’s mark was a protection; if the mark was his skin color, then God must have turned him white, not black.”

19. “You’d be a better Christian if you learned how to read, Ruby had told him. Cain’s mark was a protection; if the mark was his skin color, then God must have turned him white, not black.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “For those wishing to vacation abroad, the agency could recommend destinations that were relatively free of local race prejudice and, just as important, not overrun by white American tourists – for nothing was more frustrating than traveling thousands of miles only to encounter the same bigots you dealt with every day at home.”

20. “For those wishing to vacation abroad, the agency could recommend destinations that were relatively free of local race prejudice and, just as important, not overrun by white American tourists – for nothing was more frustrating than traveling thousands of miles only to encounter the same bigots you dealt with every day at home.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “Ex-Confederate? What’s that, like an ex-Nazi? The man fought for slavery! You don’t get to put an ‘ex-’ in front of that!”

21. “Ex-Confederate? What’s that, like an ex-Nazi? The man fought for slavery! You don’t get to put an ‘ex-’ in front of that!”

Matt Ruff Quote: “He recognized the perverse mix of anger and glee in his father’s voice and knew that something he enjoyed was about to be irrevocably spoiled.”

22. “He recognized the perverse mix of anger and glee in his father’s voice and knew that something he enjoyed was about to be irrevocably spoiled.”

Matt Ruff Quote: “For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.”

23. “For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.”

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