Matthew Quick Quotes

She’s fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and I’ve played my role too, by remaining calm, pretending to be okay, and therefore giving her permission to cross me off her things-to-do list. Now she can move on, and I can too.Once you understand how adults are controlled by the system, manipulating them is elementary.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

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