Quotes from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm sorta like a rock star to these people.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“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.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“There is only one of me and so many of the people who are not like me, and maybe I'm just an amusing distraction for those other people, Maybe I'm just a freak. A sideshow.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I spread hope.
I'm a hope spreader.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I marvel at her - a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“She never laughs or smiles or tells a joke. She reminds me of a robot caked in meat.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“As I pedal, I start to get a bad feeling. I start to feel like I have everything all wrong, and that everyone else is right, and all my hopefulness is just childish bullcrap.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“We cry together- on the couch for different- reasons, but it helps.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Flowers
Are in the
Ground,
Where we
Cannot see
The
Future
Wonderment”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smile”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Writing
Haikus one
After the
Other,
Knowing
Only the
Moment”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Tell me that you won't live your life afraid, but will grow up and live a better life than your mother could ever imagine.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

“We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star

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