Matt Cain > Quotes

“But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that trying to be anyone other than yourself will never make you happy. Any road, how do you know people won’t like you if you don’t ever show them the real you?”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“And if I love him a little bit more today, I’ll love him a whole lot more tomorrow.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“But he reminded himself that everyone was busy steering a course through their own dramas, that everyone was grappling with their own challenges in life. They're all busy coloring themselves in.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Yeah, but one thing I've learned is that if you try to do that, you never do put the past behind you - it just tags along in the present. And it burrows into you like some kind of poison. It's only by facing up to it and dealing with all the feelings it brings up that we can learn from it and move on.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“If only all my life could be like this. If only I could always feel this free.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Because he could see now that, just by being open about their feelings, every single person had the chance to change the world.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“He’d survived by keeping the experiences that had most affected him to himself.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“I can’t go on living like this. I might have thirty years left. I want them to be happy.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“No one ever stops to think I might have lived through experiences that have left me wary of opening myself up.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“how can I expect George to accept me if I’m not brave enough to accept myself?”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“In some ways I'm like a picture that hasn't been colored in yet. Or one that I'm still in the process of coloring in...”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“He remembered comparing himself to one of Reenie’s pictures that was still being coloured in; he could see now that he’d always be colouring himself in, just as everyone else was. But that was fine. Because the picture he was working on was much richer and much more colourful than it used to be.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“We have been taught to hide. We have been taught to remain invisible. We have been taught to be ashamed. It is time to get visible, stand up, and be proud.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“It’s so upsetting to think people could be so horrible to you, that they could want to hurt you, to just hack away at your happiness – and your own parents too. They’re supposed to be the ones who look after you and love you just the way you are. They’re supposed to want you to be happy.”
― Matt Cain

“How could the world learn to accept people like me if we all stayed hidden away? If we all continued to hide away our love like it’s something to be ashamed of?”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“I'd much rather be at home watching Blind Date with a tin of pineapple chunks.”
― Matt Cain, The Madonna of Bolton

“He wondered if it ever occurred to all those people who socialised without any unease at all just how torturous it was for someone like him to be thrust into that kind of situation.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Maybe because straight people have never been made to feel ashamed of who they are. Maybe because it’s never been illegal to be straight.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“She reassured herself that now was the perfect moment to open up to him. I can always say, “I think I might be falling in love with you,” just to take the edge off a bit.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“didn’t understand why so many people appeared so comfortable talking about their most intimate experiences. It was clearly something that had been encouraged by celebrity interviews, not to mention the social media that seemed to obsess everyone.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Slowly, the gulf between who he was then and the man he'd become since was beginning to close. Have I really changed that much after all?”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“She sat back down to upload the photo to his various accounts, busying herself with a process she called “filtering the shit out of it.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Albert remembered reading somewhere that you could pick up more germs during a short journey on the London Underground than you could from licking a toilet bowl.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“But now here the notes were, in his hands, bringing his secret life bursting into the present and reminding him of how happy he'd been each time he'd unfolded one of them. It was this happiness that had first inspired him to become a postman; in quite a simple way he'd thought that by delivering mail he'd get to spend his life making other people happy.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“He remembered what it had felt like to be loved. And, all of a sudden, it was as if he were losing that love all over again.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“as a young black woman, all she had to do was be slightly standoffish and white people assumed she was angry and aggressive.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“as he’d entered his sixties, noticed that people paid him less and less attention anyway.”
― Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle