“Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical."
"That's just a story."
"So are we- we're stories too.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“You don't always get the role you're going to play in life, but it's good to play whatever role you got the best way you can.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“I just got a ticket to Hogwarts. Might be taking a train ride to a magical place that's much better than here. Don't tell any Muggles, okay? But I want you to know I'll be alright.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“you don’t put demands on people and you never say anything negative--ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they’re around, but you don’t do that. You give people strength just by being you.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“I’ve found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?” Albert Einstein”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“I remember wondering how many other things I didn't know about my parents. You only get to know so much.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
“That's just a story."
"So are we--we're stories too," Russ says.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Boy21
Matthew Quick
Born place: Philadelphia, The United States
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four
“It is of no use to hope that we shall be well rooted if no rough winds pass over us. Those old gnarlings on the root of the oak tree, and those strange twistings of the branches, all tell of the many storms that have swept over it, and they are also indicators of the depth into which the roots have forced their way. So the Christian is made strong, and firmly rooted by all the trials and storms of life. Shrink not then from the tempestuous winds of trial, but take comfort, believing that by their rough discipline God is fulfilling this benediction to you.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, quote from Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“had come into Gate 41, right on schedule.”
― James Patterson, quote from Jack & Jill
“Let’s go eat turkey before I beat the crap put of my cousin.”
The way he said it, Vlad wasn’t sure if Henry wanted to eat instead of beating Joss to a pulp, or if he just didn’t want to do it on an empty stomach.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eleventh Grade Burns
“...our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any one of us as are the present and the past.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Fear Nothing
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