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The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”

“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.”

“I am practicing being kind over being right.”

“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”

“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.”

“The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up.”

“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”

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

“I still love you in my own fucked-up way.”

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