Quotes from Love May Fail

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Portia Kane, Official Member of the Human Race! This card entitles you to ugliness and beauty, heartache and joy—the great highs and lows of existence—and everything in between. It also guarantees you the right to strive, to reach, to dream, and to become the person you know (deep down) you are meant to be. So make daring choices, work hard, enjoy the ride, and remember—you become exactly whomever you choose to be.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Teachers have to believe. You have to care, and that takes a lot of work and effort. Teachers need people to give back once in a while too, if only a little.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“The books we read in literature classes--just innocuous letters and symbols on paper, until we run the words through our brains and allow the fiction to manifest in the real world.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“This wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be beautiful. What the fuck?”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Do people actually do that--go back and thank their teachers years later, when they're no longer handicapped by youth and ignorance, when they figure out just how much their teachers actually did for them?”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“The world is a hard place and can be hardest on the hopeful,”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Do you know what happens when you do nothing? Nothing.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“I haven’t been home for years. My mother’s lack of a filter.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“Another thought hits me hard as a lawn dart to the eye: this moment is so terribly unimportant to the rest of the world, yet it means everything to me somehow - and it's enough.
So I sign and I sign and I sign.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“All the time in the world may sound nice in theory, but in practice it can become a swift kick to the balls. CHAPTER 7 Harper’s is the local convenience store around here, only it’s nothing like the Wawas and 7-Elevens I frequented when I lived in the Philadelphia area.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“You know what you call a herd of unicorns? A blessing. True.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

“You’ll be with my husband, and I’ll be with so many sisters who see no visions. Who have no eyes to see, nor ears to hear—”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail

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