Maddie Dawson > 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

“Listen. I don’t know how to do this right, but I really, really love you,” he said, and cleared his throat. He licked his lips and started talking fast. “I think you’re the sweetest, most beautiful girl in the world, and I’ve been living for our telephone conversations. It’s the only thing that gets me through these days, knowing that I get to talk to you every night. Keeping the secret about this job was the hardest thing for me to do, but I wanted to tell you in person. And ever since I knew I was going to come here and ask you this, I couldn’t eat or drink anything. And I know I’m different from you, and I’m probably never going to be cool, but I love yourpaintings, I love that you do art, I get it, and I won’t ever tell you that you should do paintings that match somebody’s couch. I will keep you in paint and canvases for the rest of your life, and if you really want to teach elementary school, then I think you’ll be the best teacher there ever was. And I love that you dress so cute, and I love the way you smell and the way you sing in the shower. I used to camp out on the floor outside the door when you were showering just so I could hear you, and the first time we made love was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I was so afraid you were going to say it couldn’t happen again. I just want to spend all my time looking at you and telling you things, and even though I’m just some nerd who thinks about strikes and contracts all the time, I want you to know that I’m financially solvent right now, I have some investments, and I’ll always do anything I can to make you happy. Your happiness is going to be the main thing for me. From now on. Forever. I mean that.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“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

“She batted those
eyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

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

“I walked around on the alert for love. I was an appreciator of people’s best moments.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

“The heart is a funny little animal, isn't it?...It gets this idea about somebody, and then it doesn't let go, even when things go bad. Even when they go awful, and anybody else could see plain as day you should get out. There's your own stupid little heart just bumping around claiming, 'No, it's fine! I'm fine! It's all good!”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“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

“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

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

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

“People tell you who they really are, if you listen and pay attention.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

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

“Our blood and the sea have the same pH.”
― 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

“It’s hard to make room for love when anger still feels so good.”
― 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

“My own heart, given away to Noah, now stirs somewhere deep down, stretches, yawns, looks at its watch and rolls over, tries to go back to sleep. But it has one eye open, I notice.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I work in a nursery school, so I get to spend my days sitting on the floor with three- and four-year-olds, talking. People think it must be the most boring thing in the world, but oh my God! They tell me about the most astonishing things. They get into philosophical discussions about their boo-boos and about how worms on the sidewalk get their feelings hurt sometimes, and why the yellow crayon is the meanest one but the purple one is nice. Can you believe it? They know the personalities of crayons.”
― 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

“Be open to what doesn't seem possible, and you will be amazed what can happen.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“all they can think to do is stare into their phones until the world ends.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners