I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.
Matthew QuickThere will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
Matthew QuickThe world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, thatโs guaranteed. And I canโt begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again
Matthew QuickYou're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
Matthew QuickIn my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.
Matthew Quick