Matthew Quick Quotes

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.

We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

When I realize I've come through so much, good and bad, because of my relationship with Christ, I can't hide that light within me.

I have made some bad decisions in my own life, and people were there for me.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some point in her life, and maybe she wants to figure out, by coming back to him, who she really is. She comes back because she misses him, and she's alone, and the only person she's ever loved is Matt.

Community and families are what we're neglecting. This is what's holding us back as people, and instead, we want to look at everything else.

We are not a typical family that goes for a movie on Sunday or has dinner together every night. But we are strong as the Great Wall of China. Nothing can stop us from supporting one another and enduring each other's pain as well.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

Letters of friendship require no study.