Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.
Matthew Quick
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Makes
Somehow
Doesn
Wear
Others
Angry
Else
Trust
Cannot
Face
Looks
Faces
Different
Happy
Everyone
Watched
More quotes by Matthew Quick
Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.
Matthew Quick
The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up.
Matthew Quick
I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.
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 thought makes me a little sad.
Matthew Quick
I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.
Matthew Quick
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.
Matthew Quick
I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
Matthew Quick
Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.
Matthew Quick
I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.
Matthew Quick
After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Matthew Quick
You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.
Matthew Quick
I opened up to you and you judge me
Matthew Quick
People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.
Matthew Quick
The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed. And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again
Matthew Quick
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
Matthew Quick
most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.
Matthew Quick
I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.
Matthew Quick
What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?
Matthew Quick
I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.
Matthew Quick
You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts I learned the value of this at a very young age.
Matthew Quick
