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.

— Matthew Quick

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

— Matthew Quick

... I am uncontrollable and dangerous. But of course I do not say this to Jake, mostly because he has never been locked up and doesn't understand what it feels like to lose control, and he only wants to watch the football game now, and none of this means anything to him, because he has never been married, and he has never lost someone like Nikki, and he is not trying to improve his life at all, because he doesn't ever feel the war that goes on in my chest every single fucking day--the chemical explosions that light up my skull like the Fourth of July and the awful needs and impulses and...

— Matthew Quick

I believe in happy endings, and I feel this movie has advanced long enough.

— 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

I found posts about how to slit your wrists the "right way", so you will actually die, and that depressed me, because people actually post stuff like that, and even though I wanted to know the answer, so I could weigh my options, that info maybe shouldn't be on the internet... But really - why do some people post the correct ways to commit suicide on the internet? Do they want weird, sad people like me to go away permanently? Do they think it's a good idea for some people to off themselves? How can you tell when you are one of those people who should slash his wrists the right way with a razor blade? Is there an answer for that too? I Googled, but nothing concrete came up. Just ways to complete the mission. Not justification.

— Matthew Quick

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know any more than I did.

— Matthew Quick

... I like the way Thee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach, because there is a frickin' reason why Santa Claus is more popular than Jesus nowadays.

— Matthew Quick

I’m a screwed-up person who is a no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.

— 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