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The Silver Linings Playbook QUOTES

The Silver Linings Playbook QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

2 " And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends? "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

3 " 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. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

4 " You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

5 " Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

6 " Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

7 " Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

8 " I've seen the way you've been looking at me. Don't bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there's no chance of my parents walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey to dinner, but you can fuck me as long as we turn the lights out first. Okay? "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

9 " You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

10 " Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend, and you gotta make sure that it’s mended and you’re getting in the way of that right now, okay, because she’s sensitive and she’s smart, she’s artistic. This is a great girl, you gotta be respectful to that. Come on, let me walk you to your car, you’re a better guy than this. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

11 " ... 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 , The Silver Linings Playbook

12 " Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies? "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

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

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

14 " Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

15 " ...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 , The Silver Linings Playbook

16 " After 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 , The Silver Linings Playbook

17 " Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

18 " I am practicing being kind instead of right. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

19 " I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook

20 " Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind. "

― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook