Top 160 Matthew Quick Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It means they do things to ensure that they fail so they don’t have to deal with the consequences and responsibilities of success.”

— Matthew Quick

52. “What have I been telling you since you were a boy? Whenever something bad happens to us,” Mom said as she tucked me into my new bed, insisting that I needed some sleep after staying up all night, “something good happens – often to someone else. And that’s The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.”

— Matthew Quick

53. “When I look at my father, I can see that he doesn’t get it, either, and right then and there, I realize that there’s a big part of me that my parents will never get no matter how many therapy sessions we attend – even if we have a million and one conversations about who I am.”

— Matthew Quick

54. “I’m going to kill you later today,” I say to that guy in the mirror, and he just smiles back at me like he can’t wait.”

— Matthew Quick

55. “Sometimes you just have to let crap slide when it comes to adults acting like kids, because that can be a beautiful thing. True? True.”

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56. “There is a price to pay for pushing beyond everyone else’s answers, and what I’m finding out is that I’m more than willing to pay it.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “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.”

— Matthew Quick

59. “When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.”

— Matthew Quick

60. “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.”

— Matthew Quick

61. “Can’t it just exist without an explanation? Why do we have to assign meaning to art? Do we need to understand everything? Maybe it exists to evoke feelings and emotions – period. Not to mean something.”

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62. “So I wore the lesbian comments like a mask that kept everything I really loved private and safe and beyond the dirty grasp of the people who didn’t know the real, true me and never would.”

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63. “I like to pretend I’m a prisoner kept in a dark, dank cell who’s only allowed fifteen minutes a day in the yard, so that I can remember to really enjoy looking up.”

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

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65. “When she needed help most, she was abandoned.”

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66. “He’s just going to buy alcohol or drugs, you know”, Lauren said, which made me sad, because she didn’t know that man at all, let alone whether he had a dependency problem.”

— Matthew Quick

67. “And so maybe it isn’t the motivating factors that matter so much as simply participating – thrusting your best true, authentic self into the universe with wild abandon. Maybe yielding to our true nature propels us forward into the great unknown, toward targets that we haven’t even dreamed up yet but exist nonetheless.”

— Matthew Quick

68. “Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain – and so I am.”

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69. “Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth. I meet a lot of people in my line of work, and I can say with utmost certainty – life is pretty hard for almost all of them.”

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70. “I remember wondering how many other things I didn’t know about my parents. You only get to know so much.”

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71. “Don’t you ever feel like you want to quit doing something everyone else makes you feel like you’re supposed to keep doing? Didn’t you ever just simply want to... stop?”

— Matthew Quick

72. “Think for yourself and do what’s right for you, but let others do the same.”

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73. “Maybe it was the type of high only kids can get and understand. There were hundreds of adults drinking alcohol and gambling and smoking that night, but I bet none of them felt the high Asher and I did. Maybe that’s why adults drink, gamble, and do drugs – because they can’t get naturally lit anymore. Maybe we lose that ability as we get older.”

— Matthew Quick

74. “I haven’t been home for years. My mother’s lack of a filter.”

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75. “Did that ever happen to you? You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything? Do you know what I’m talking about?”

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76. “What if I had the power to save both of us – all of us – all along?”

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

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78. “Why didn’t my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?”

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79. “You better watch out, or you’re going to be defeated by pessimism!”

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80. “Why is it that some people are born into fantastic situations and others wait their whole lives for a break?”

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81. “And how stories and objects and people and pretty much everything can blink out of existence at any time.”

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82. “Appearances, appearances. The great facade. How to Live Blindly in a Blind World 101.”

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83. “Most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.”

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84. “Why didn’t we do this then? Probably because we had class on Monday morning. But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance. What was the worst thing that could have happened? We would have missed class.”

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85. “The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”

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86. “Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being.”

— Matthew Quick

87. “The best part of my soul loves the best part of your soul.”

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88. “When I read the actual story – how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can’t ever be with her no matter how hard he tries – I feel like ripping the book in half and calling up Fitzgerald and telling him his book is all wrong, even though I know Fitzgerald is probably deceased.”

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89. “You think someone is really important and different, but then you get to know them and it ruins everything.”

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90. “Why is it that the people who are very good at answering difficult questions never get asked difficult questions, while people like me are always being forced to do things that are seemingly impossible?”

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91. “I’m pretty sure that this is the part of my movie when something surprising will happen, so I am trusting in God, who I know will not let me down. If I have faith, if I go to that special place, something beautiful will happen when the sun sets – I can feel it.”

— Matthew Quick

92. “So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.”

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93. “I opened up to you and you judge me.”

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94. “So I pull Tifanny closer, kiss the hard spot between her perfectly plucked eyebrows, and after a deep breath, I say, “I think I need you too.”

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95. “Somehow I know that Nikki will never love me as much-no matter how much I improve my character.”

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

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97. “What is reality if it isn’t how we feel about things?”

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98. “I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.”

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99. “You call me a princess and sometimes we put on as much gold as we can, and you call me “Jay-Z,” and then laugh so hard.”

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100. “What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future – your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose – a reason.”

— Matthew Quick