Kaizen Zuño

“And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“we can simultaneously be human and monster—that both of those possibilities are in all of us.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“It worries me that I can be so explosive one day -- volatile enough to commit a murder-suicide -- and then the next day I'm watching Bogart save the day with Walt, like nothing happened at all, and nothing is urgent, and I really don't have to do anything to set the world right or escape my own mind.

I'd like to feel okay all the time -- to have the ability to sit and function without feeling so much pressure, without feeling as though blood is going to spurt from my eyes and fingers and toes if I don't do something.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock