Matthew Quick

“I need you, Pat Peoples; I need you so fucking bad.”

— Matthew Quick

“I still love you in my own fucked-up way.”

— Matthew Quick

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

— Matthew Quick

“I am practicing being kind instead of right.”

— Matthew Quick

I opened up to you and you judge me

— Matthew Quick

“I need you so fucking bad.”

— Matthew Quick

“God doesn't do coincidences. You can bet your ass.”

— Matthew Quick

“It's not sexual--it's modern dance.”

— Matthew Quick

“I looked into Father McNamee’s eyes, and it looked like he had been broken into and robbed again.”

— Matthew Quick

“Have you noticed that far too often the best people in the world lack power,”

— Matthew Quick

“Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take.”

— Matthew Quick

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

— Matthew Quick

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...

— Matthew Quick

“[...] I really like being the sun, exactly what allows clouds to have a silver lining.”

— Matthew Quick

“The universe hiccups, and we poor fools try to figure out why.”

— Matthew Quick

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

— Matthew Quick

“My life will get better? You really believe that?" I ask. “It can. If you’re willing to do the work.” “What work?”…

— Matthew Quick

“When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now.…

— Matthew Quick

“She’s just a weird woman,” I say in response. “Aren’t they all?” Cli� replies, and we laugh some because women truly are…

— Matthew Quick

So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I…

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People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize…

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“There is only one of me and so many of the people who are not like me, and maybe I'm just an…

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I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant…

— Matthew Quick

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the…

— Matthew Quick

“Sometimes I actually hope that he did once feel empty and hopeless and helpless enough to slash his wrists to the bone,…

— Matthew Quick

“She’s fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and…

— Matthew Quick

“I have to admit that Emily is a cute kid, and I instantly understand why Ronnie has written me so many letters…

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“But it makes me laugh every time because I don't wear and of that name-brand crap, don't play or follow popular sports…

— Matthew Quick

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses,…

— Matthew Quick

“Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You send Your Son down from heaven? Why did You…

— Matthew Quick

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or…

— Matthew Quick

“The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed. I can't begin to explain that. Or the craziness inside…

— Matthew Quick

“I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that…

— Matthew Quick

“I remember just how bizarre my friendship with Tiffani has been - but then I remember that no one else but Tiffani…

— Matthew Quick

“Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar…

— Matthew Quick

“You are all more or less wearing the same types of clothes—look around the room and you will see it’s true. Now…

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“I say, “It’s really really Bogart’s hat, I swear to god. Really. Just don’t tell my mom about this because I had…

— Matthew Quick

There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have…

— Matthew Quick

“...and I kept thinking about the questions the border patrolman had asked. Are those types of questions able to define us as…

— Matthew Quick

“I didn’t believe you when you said there was a red statue that read “LOVE,” with the LO stacked on top of…

— Matthew Quick