Matthew Quick quotes
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. 
I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings. 
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. 
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. 
Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.