Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
14 quotes
"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life"
"I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough."
"Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire."
"... 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."
"I am not weak and can control my mind really well"."
"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."
"Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?"
"Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you."
"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."
"Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit."