Matchmaking for Beginners Quotes

“Whatever happens, love that.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“it’s in the broken places where the light gets in.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“You need to forget what society has told you about life and expectations, and don’t let anybody make you pretend. You are enough, just the way you are—do you hear me? You have many gifts. Many, many gifts.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“We are all vibrational beings in physical bodies, and thoughts actually become reality so you have to make sure you’re thinking about what you want and not about what you don’t want.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“The subversive truth about love is that it really is the big deal everyone makes it out to be, and it’s not some form of security or an insurance policy against loneliness. It’s everything, love is. It runs the whole universe”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“You need a mantra to help you. You can borrow mine, if you want: ‘Whatever happens, love that.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I don’t know how it got started—we found ourselves dancing, and of course, dancing is the gateway drug to kissing,”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Words are a good first step. They have a lot of power. You can summon things by believing in them. First you visualize them being true, and then they come true.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I shouldn’t have come, and that’s the truth of it. It’s not even five o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m already fantasizing about a swift, painless coma. Something dramatic, involving a nice collapse to the floor, with my eyes rolling back in their sockets and my limbs shaking.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“We are all broken, I say to him. And we all still have to dance.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“We never got married because I’ve finally learned that if you have to bring the law into your personal relationships, then you’re doing it wrong.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“When I brush against him, several of my more alert cells notice that he’s something we all once liked. They have conveniently and traitorously forgotten that we are not Team Noah anymore. We are Team Jeremy.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Our blood and the sea have the same pH.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Don’t settle for anything you don’t want. That’s the main thing.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I want to stop thinking of pain as a problem I have to solve.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“She has the kind of hair that should ensure its owner’s perfect lifetime happiness. Too bad her hair is not in charge of negotiating her love life, because then nothing would ever go wrong.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Whenever anything scared the living daylights our of me, that was a sign to me that I needed to throw myself into it. Ana you know what else? That's how I've lived my whole life, doing whatever scares me.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“That’s how I’ve lived my whole life, doing whatever scares me.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“She has the kind of hair that should ensure its owner’s perfect lifetime happiness.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“men just fine, but if we’re honest, we have to admit that most of them are just smelly, sweaty, grunting ball scratchers. Somehow we’re supposed to love ’em anyway.” She shakes her head. “Gotta love it. Nature’s joke. Can’t live with ’em, can’t shoot ’em.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“haven’t been able to sleep since four o’clock, that blackest of hours,”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“The full moon will wake you up if you sleep in the front bedroom. Still, that’s the room I recommend. It’s the best because you will hear the sounds of the outside world, and that will keep you grounded and sane.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I know, that, as stupid as it sounds, sometimes you have to live alongside the things you don’t want, like cancer, and doing that helps you go deeper into life than you’ve ever gone before. If we all lived forever, I tell him, then life really wouldn’t have any meaning. So why not embrace it, prepare for it, love what is?”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Here’s the truth, sweet pea: we are all vibrational beings in physical bodies, and thoughts actually become reality so you have to make sure you’re thinking about what you want and not about what you don’t want.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“a teacher gets up and says this is a sacred space when children are performing things they’ve practiced so hard, and he personally will come out into the audience and confiscate any cell phone that happens to ring, and the audience laughs nervously, and then he adds that he will also smash it to pieces,”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I don’t want to be burned and slashed and poisoned in the interest of “getting better.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens,” I say to him. “Rumi said that.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I’ve made nice with trouble my whole life, and I’ve noticed that what happens is that problems just curl right up like declawed kittens and nestle at your feet and fall asleep.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I’ve made friends with it because I don’t believe in that whole battle metaphor for disease”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“but it’s so sad how he carries around him an aura of cloudy beige.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners