{"author":"Matthew Quick","author_id":"Matthew+Quick","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["mothers"],"id":31511,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["faith","family","love","moms","risk","unconditional-love"],"id":39957,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"It’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["hard-work","talentt"],"id":42780,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"...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...","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["mental-illness"],"id":48760,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["age","twenties"],"id":56596,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["christmas","danny","miracles","pat"],"id":61441,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["fairy-tales","relationships-love"],"id":62903,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they’re not strong enough to do the same.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["behavior","self-esteem","society","standards"],"id":87330,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"You don’t put demands on people and you never say anything negative--ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they’re around, but you don’t do that. You give people strength just by being you.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["friends","quiet-people","strength"],"id":87779,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["acceptance","high-school","music","musician"],"id":94663,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}