Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quickis an American writer of adult and young-adult fiction. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 October 1973
CountryUnited States of America
watches pessimism defeated
You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
desire needs action
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
people silver ability
most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.
feel-better cosmos looks
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.
happiness real feel-good
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
mother believe believe-in-you
Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.
believe want happy-endings
I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.
looks faces different
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.
memories night thinking
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?
opportunity thinking stories
Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.
believe gone happy-endings
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
believe different knows
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
broken giving trying
I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.
sorry people letters
I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.