Matthew Green > Quotes

“No matter what happens, I don’t think that anyone will remember me when I disappear. It will be like I was never here. There will be no proof that I ever existed … you can’t be sad if you disappear, because disappeared people can’t feel sad. They can only be remembered or forgotten.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“It's very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can't be suffocated and you can't get sick and you can't fall and break your head and you can't catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I hated Pinocchio. I think I was the only one in the class who hated him. Pinocchio was alive, but that was not enough for him. He could walk and talk and touch things in the real world, but he spent the whole book wanting more.

Pinocchio didn’t know how lucky he was.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“The world can be so complicated for Max. Even when he gets something right, it can still go wrong.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don’t exist anymore.
There is nothing worse than that”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Grown out of it means that his parents couldn't figure out what to do, so they didn't do anything except hope that things has changed because Max was taller and wearing bigger sneakers.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“In love the artless catch the game,
And they scarce miss who never aim.”
― Matthew Green, The Spleen (Classic Reprint): And Other Poems