Matheus Quotes

#1. Quin stalked beside him, his anger a physical presence between them. Matheus named it Bob, and addressed imaginary questions to it to distract himself.

Amy Fecteau

#2. Matheus looked down at his feet and sighed. "I lost my shoes." "Tragedy affects us all, Sunshine," Quin said.

Amy Fecteau

#3. some advice? Don't flirt when you're covered in shit." Matheus peeked around the door, checking if Emphysema Man had stepped out for another fix.

Amy Fecteau

#4. okay. You're not that much below average." "I'm not below average at all! I'm above average! Way, way above average!" Quin shrugged. "Maybe you're a grower, not a shower," he said. "I'm going to throttle you," said Matheus.

Amy Fecteau

#5. English you're speaking," Matheus said. "The language that sidles up to other languages in dark alleys, mugs them, then rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. It's the bitch-whore of languages and it owns the world. Suck on that, Rome boy.

Amy Fecteau

#6. Matheus wondered if the antelope ever volunteered to be eaten by the lion.

Amy Fecteau

#7. Matheus felt like a nice Jewish boy trying to explain that his new girlfriend with the shaved head and the swastika tattooed across her stomach had a really sweet personality, you know, deep down.

Amy Fecteau

#8. Matheus thought he ranked fairly high on the scowling index, but looking at Zeb made him realize how much more he had to learn. Whole volumes of misanthropy were written into the eyebrows alone.

Amy Fecteau

#9. Matheus pressed his fingertips to his forehead, rubbing in overlapping circles. He closed his eyes and exhaled. He wanted to grab Quin and run. Jump in the Jeep and drive until they reached the Panama Canal.

Amy Fecteau

#10. Somehow, Matheus expected the night he died to be fraught with weather straight out of the Old Testament: thunderstorms and hurricane winds and floods with arks.

Amy Fecteau

#11. What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Ovid

#12. In case you haven't heard, the brain is the most important sexual organ, and my brain isn't interested in having anything to do with you.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#13. I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

Rachel McAdams

#14. Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Aristotle.

#15. The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

Anatol Rapoport

#16. This is wrong. Out of this world wrong.
But then again, so am I.

Helen Boswell

#17. A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first of all, and they have to tell the story so that their life depends upon it.

Tony Grisoni

#18. Deep in my heart I know my future soul mate is not waiting for me online.

Liz Tuccillo

#19. The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up.

Tim Russert

#20. God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

Stephen King