Best 12 quotes of Matthew Thomas on MyQuotes

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

... aveva passato tutta la sua vita a ripulire caos e disordine

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts. He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.

He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

Il tempo viene per chi lo sa aspettare

... l'unica compagnia erano le pagine con le orecchie dei suoi romanzi, mentre se ne stava seduta con aria imbronciata sulla poltrona

Non è lo spettro della mia vita passata, si disse lei. È quello del futuro passato. È il fantasma della vita che ero sul punto di fare. Finché rimarrò qui, quel futuro non dovrà morire

Non innamorarti mai di nessuno" le disse lei in quel momento, mentre prendeva i documenti e li riponeva nel cassetto in cui aveva custodito l'anello. "Ci guadagnerai solo un cuore in pezzi, nient'altro

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.