Top 35 Matthew Dicks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The size of gummy worms compared to the size of gummy bears makes me question the whole gummy universe.”

— Matthew Dicks

2. “Your story must reflect change over time. A story cannot simply be a series of remarkable events. You must start out as one version of yourself and end as something new.”

— Matthew Dicks

3. “Seek out the moments when you felt your heart move. When something changed forever, even if that moment seems minuscule compared to the rest of the story. That will be your five-second moment. Until you have it, you don’t have a story. When you find it, you’re ready to begin crafting your story.”

— Matthew Dicks

4. “Everyone is someone’s devil.”

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5. “They talk to kids in their regular voices and say things that they would say in their own living rooms. Their bulletin boards are always a little raggedy, and their desks are always a little messy, and their libraries are always a little out of order, but kids love them because they talk about real things with real voices and they always tell the truth.”

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6. “It’s strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”

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7. “A person is more than a person. A person is the promise of everything that person can be.”

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8. “Telling stories about your life lets people know they’re not alone; and it lets some of the people closest to you – like family and loved ones – see your life apart from the context of family and without the kind of revisionist hindsight we can sometimes fall into concerning the ones we love most.”

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9. “Living well is the best revenge. If that doesn’t work, bide your time. You can always ruin your enemy’s life at a later date.”

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10. “You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”

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11. “Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else’s brain, and will make you more interesting at a dinner party.”

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12. “Allow others to sing your praise. If you don’t feel like you’re receiving the credit you deserve, you haven’t earned the credit you deserve. Try harder.”

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13. “I sometimes wonder if I’m the person I’m supposed to be,” Polly said. He voice was quiet. Almost distant. “Or if I’m just filling the only role left over.”

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14. “Solutions are a hell of a lot easier when you’re the only one in need of saving. Also, explosives help too.”

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15. “She says “immediately” in a way to let the person who parked the car know that she is annoyed. She could just say, “Please move your car from the circle. And whoever you are, I am annoyed that you parked there” but instead she says “immediately,” which seems nicer and not so nice at the same time.”

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16. “He doesn’t move at all. I think he does this on purpose. If he moved, if he even nodded, then there would be no more sides in the room. Everyone would be on the same side. They would be a team.”

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17. “I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.”

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18. “Mommy and daddy wouldn’t answer her, so she asked me to help. I stayed with her. I talked to her.”

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19. “Love does not make everything better, but it makes everything a little easier.”

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20. “To truly love someone, you must love the person you never knew, the person you know today, and the person that will someday be.”

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21. “It’s very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can’t suffocate and you can’t get sick, and you can’t fall and break your head, and you can’t catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you. That happens more than all the suffocating and bumps and pneumonia combined.”

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22. “Max would rather say nothing to everyone than something to one person.”

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23. “Just a little bit of shared language and culture can make a person feel like he’s standing far outside of a group, wishing to find a way in.”

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24. “Forse tutti siamo il diavolo per qualcuno.”

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25. “Loving another person means not needing their best self. Just their real self.”

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26. “I do not need to exist for me anymore. I just want to exist for Max. I want to know the rest of Max’s story.”

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27. “It’s not our place anymore. But it’s not a new place, either. It’s not a special place for anyone anymore.”

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28. “Adults spend their lives unwinding their childhood.”

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29. “They are working hard and fast, but they are just doing what they are supposed to do. I see the same look on the faces of some of Max’s teachers when Max doesn’t understand something and the teacher doesn’t think he will ever understand it. The teachers work hard, but you can tell that they are just doing the lesson. Not teaching the lesson. That’s what the doctors look like now. They are doing the doctoring but they do not believe in the doctoring.”

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30. “Getting shot might kill a person but I don’t think it would stop someone from going back to work someday. But getting stuck like Sally might stop a person from ever coming back to work, even to say hello to old friends.”

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31. “Every imaginary friend can touch the world, I think.”

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32. “Maybe we are all somebody’s devil,” Oswald says. “Maybe even me and you.”

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33. “He cringes every time she tries to help him or even touch him, but he can’t tell her to stop because it’s easier for Max to cringe and suffer than speak up.”

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34. “People who do great things don’t wait until the time is right. They make the time.”

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35. “When we are facing the last seconds of our lives, minutes become precious. The key is to understand their preciousness today when there is still time to make those minutes matter.”

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