Matthew Quick's Blog
April 9, 2026
DAD, LOVE, ME blurbs
Read what bestselling authors Scott Galloway, Catherine Newman, Nathan Hill, and Wally Lamb have to say about DAD, LOVE, ME.
“Almost every man I know is carrying a wound from his father, but most of us will die without ever admitting it. Matthew Quick didn’t. I wish I could’ve read Dad, Love, Me while I was white-knuckling my own father-son mythology—this book will gut you and then, somehow, put you back together. We are taught, as men, that silence is strength and that need is weakness. So we drink. We work. We disappear into the pursuit of wealth and status and whatever else keeps us from feeling the thing we’ve never been given language for: that we are still, underneath all of it, sons who wanted to be seen by our fathers and weren’t. Dad, Love, Me addresses this—precisely, courageously, and without self-pity. Read it. Then call your father. Time is not on your side.” —Scott Galloway, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Notes on Being a Man
“Dad, Love, Me is a gut punch of a memoir: a history of monstrous masculinity that will knock the wind right out of you. Matthew Quick explores the crushing legacy of having been loved badly—unsteadily at best, violently otherwise—and then turns his prodigious heart toward the painful, ecstatic project of forgiveness. What a gift he has. What a gift this book is.” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck
“It’s an oft-repeated truth of modern psychology: that to be healthy, you have to ‘do the work.’ But at a time when ‘doing the work’ has been trivialized by the online mental health click-machine, it is thrilling to see someone really, honestly doing the work, the very hard work, of compassion, forgiveness, and piercing introspection. Matthew Quick invites us on a profound journey—into childhood, fatherhood, masculinity, and the awareness required to heal after heartbreak. The courage it took to write this book leaves me in awe.” —Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness
“Quick gets personal, delivering a painfully wrought memoir that bravely explores parental abuse, the trap of alcoholism, lifesaving therapy, and the double-edged sword of literary success. I was moved by the depth of Quick’s candor and his impulse to share his story to help other ‘walking wounded’ sons of toxic fathers discover a pathway to forgiveness.” —Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The River Is Waiting
“Almost every man I know is carrying a wound from his father, but most of us will die without ever admitting it. Matthew Quick didn’t. I wish I could’ve read Dad, Love, Me while I was white-knuckling my own father-son mythology—this book will gut you and then, somehow, put you back together. We are taught, as men, that silence is strength and that need is weakness. So we drink. We work. We disappear into the pursuit of wealth and status and whatever else keeps us from feeling the thing we’ve never been given language for: that we are still, underneath all of it, sons who wanted to be seen by our fathers and weren’t. Dad, Love, Me addresses this—precisely, courageously, and without self-pity. Read it. Then call your father. Time is not on your side.” —Scott Galloway, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Notes on Being a Man“Dad, Love, Me is a gut punch of a memoir: a history of monstrous masculinity that will knock the wind right out of you. Matthew Quick explores the crushing legacy of having been loved badly—unsteadily at best, violently otherwise—and then turns his prodigious heart toward the painful, ecstatic project of forgiveness. What a gift he has. What a gift this book is.” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck
“It’s an oft-repeated truth of modern psychology: that to be healthy, you have to ‘do the work.’ But at a time when ‘doing the work’ has been trivialized by the online mental health click-machine, it is thrilling to see someone really, honestly doing the work, the very hard work, of compassion, forgiveness, and piercing introspection. Matthew Quick invites us on a profound journey—into childhood, fatherhood, masculinity, and the awareness required to heal after heartbreak. The courage it took to write this book leaves me in awe.” —Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness
“Quick gets personal, delivering a painfully wrought memoir that bravely explores parental abuse, the trap of alcoholism, lifesaving therapy, and the double-edged sword of literary success. I was moved by the depth of Quick’s candor and his impulse to share his story to help other ‘walking wounded’ sons of toxic fathers discover a pathway to forgiveness.” —Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The River Is Waiting
