Allison > Allison's Quotes

“I felt like I’d seen this scene, many years before. A broad swatch of lawn, twin girls slurping up orange juice, long-tailed birds flying off who knows where, netless tennis courts, the sea beyond . . . But it was an illusion. It was vivid enough, an intense sense of the real, but an illusion nonetheless. I’d never been to this hospital in my life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“And I was listening, making the appropriate signs to show I was following along. I think he must have wanted to get this off his chest for a long time, but for some reasons hadn't. If we hadn't been in a nice little restaurant in a pleasant little town in central Italy, siting before a fireplace, sipping a mellow 1983 Coltibuono, I seriously doubt he would have told me the tale. But tell it he did.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Of course I love you-- I've never loved anyone else. But those are two different things.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“You're going to take on this responsibility. And the way I see it, taking on the responsibility for something means offering it salvation.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“It's an odd thing to have in common-- like sharing a puddle on a quiet morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Suddenly in the bustle of the terminal, my destination, my name, my address will no longer be there in my brain. But this never lasts long: five or ten seconds at most.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“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

“I tell him I like the room, and we talk about my love of clouds and how most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... back before I started practicing how to be kind rather than right.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“...because I am practicing being kind rather than right.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... and it's not fair because I have been trying so hard and how long can this fucking movie last and how much more do I need to improve myself and---”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“So I take a deep breath. I allow myself to feel hopeful again...”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... there's hope if you just hold on long enough.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... since I am now only willing to watch the movie of my own life.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... and I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Like a solo car ride that takes all night but feels like a lifetime.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“And then the sun comes up and you get to your destination and the ride becomes the thing that is no longer real, because that surreal feeling has vanished and time has become meaningful again.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“These thoughts make me feel dizzy, as if I'm spinning out of control.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... and I know this journey has been for a reason.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“... but I also know that in the movies, just when the main character is about to give up, something surprising happens, which leads to a happy ending.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook