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“He wanted, one day, to be a person who went out of his way to find out what made other people happy.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves: A New York Times Notable Book and Sprawling Irish-American Adult Fiction Novel

“Don’t ever love anyone,” her mother said, picking the papers up and sliding them into the bureau drawer she’d kept her ring in. “All you’ll do is break your own heart.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“The point wasn’t always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don't know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves