01c. 1973 ADA strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?Matthew Quick / quote ↗
02c. 1973 AD... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
03c. 1973 AD...I like the way Chee 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1973 ADThen we talked a lot about our parents and how we didn't want to become them, but we had no other role models--or "maps," Alex kept saying. "My father is a terrible map, mostly because he doesn't ever lead me anywhere." And I thought about my parents being maps that led to places I didn't want to go-- and it made a shocking amount of sense, using the word maps to describe parents. If almost made you feel like you could fold Mom and Dad up and lock them away in the glove compartment of your car and just joyride for the rest of your life maybe.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
06c. 1973 ADSilence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
07c. 1973 ADSomeday 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.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
10c. 1973 ADI believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
11c. 1973 ADI’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
12c. 1973 ADAnd I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
14c. 1973 ADWe're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
16c. 1973 ADIt felt like so many years' worth of anxiety and worry were trying to escape all at once—maybe like an emotional volcano, only my mom and dad, they didn't run away to save themselves but sprinted right into my lava.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
17c. 1973 ADThat's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
18c. 1973 ADI knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
19c. 1973 ADWe really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
20c. 1973 ADRemember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
22c. 1973 ADA lot of female teachers do this - flirt with male students. I wonder if that's the only way they know how to interact with men. Like they use their sexuality to get what they want.Matthew Quick / quote ↗
23c. 1973 AD...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 / quote ↗
24c. 1973 ADAfter 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 / quote ↗
