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“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Everyone is someone's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I step through the door anyway, knowing that the hard thing and the right thing are usually the same thing.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Now I think these are the three worst things in the world:
1. Waiting
2. Not Knowing
3. Not existing”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Maybe we are all somebody's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“—¿Y qué ocurre cuando uno muere?
—Tampoco yo lo sé.
—Entonces, ¿por qué tener miedo? —dice Oswald�. Yo creo que no ocurre nada. Y si ocurre algo que es mejor que nada, pues mejor que mejor.
—¿Y si lo que ocurre es peor que nada? —le digo.
—No existe nada peor que nada. Pero si no es nada, no podré saberlo porque yo no seré nada.
Oyéndolo hablar así, siento que Oswald es un genio.
—Pero, y si no existes, ¿qué? —le pregunto�. El mundo entero seguirá viviendo sin ti. Como si nunca hubieras pasado por aquí. Y el día en que todas las personas que has conocido también hayan muerto, será como si nunca, nunca hubieras existido. ¿No te parece una pena que pase eso?
—Si salvo a Max, no. Si lo salvo, existiré para siempre.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“he has a lot going on inside of him all the time so he doesn't worry so much about what is going on outside him. That's what people don't understand”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“9. Do the thing you are thinking about doing right now. Today. Thinking about it is simply fear masquerading as thoughtfulness.
10. Living well is the best revenge. If that doesn't work, bide your time. You can always ruin your enemy's life at a later date.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“A veces uno cree saber cosas sin saber por qué.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“No one really changes. Assholes are always assholes. Angels are always angels. You are the person you've always been. Some people just learn to hide their ugly parts.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else's brain, and will make you more interesting at a dinner party.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“The thing I like best about Max is that he is brave.â€� “What did he do that was brave?â€� “It’s not one thing,â€� I say. “It’s everything. Max is not like any other person in the whole world. Kids make fun of him because he is different. His mom tries to change him into a different boy and his dad tries to treat him like he is someone else. Even his teachers treat him differently, and not always nicely. Even Mrs. Gosk. She is perfect but she still treats Max differently. No one treats him like a regular boy, but everyone wants him to be regular instead of himself. With all that, Max still gets out of bed every morning and goes to school and the park and the bus stop and even the kitchen table.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I love you, Max,' I whisper as his face and everything else in the world fades to white”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Max lives on the inside and the other kids live onthe outside. That's what makes him so different. Max doesn't have an outside. Max is all inside”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“He's dancing with the devil in pale moonlight”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Your story must reflect change over time. A story cannot simply be a series of remarkable events. You must start out as one version of yourself and end as something new.”
― Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

“Adults spend their lives unwinding their childhood.”
― Matthew Dicks, Twenty-one Truths About Love

“Lions eat giraffes so they can survive even though the giraffes didn’t do anything to the lions, and nobody thinks that the lions are wrong.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Seek out the moments when you felt your heart move. When something changed forever, even if that moment seems minuscule compared to the rest of the story. That will be your five-second moment. Until you have it, you don’t have a story. When you find it, you’re ready to begin crafting your story.”
― Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

“Podrás salvarlo cuando hayas podido salvarte a ti mismo.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“—No te preocupes, Budo. Estoy preparada para irme.

—¿Qué es eso de que estás preparada para irte? ¿Para irte adónde? ¿Tú sabes lo que ocurre cuando desapareces?

—No, pero no te preocupes. Pase lo que pase, estaré bien.”
― Matthew Dicks

“There’s no great dividing line between being a kid and an adult. We’re not all caterpillars turning into butterflies. You are what you are. When you grow up, you may be more careful than when you were a kid. You don’t say what you think as much as you once did. You learn to play nice. But you’re still the same person who did good things or rotten things when you were young. Whether you feel good about them or bad â€� whether you regret them. Well, that’s a different thing. But it’s not like they disappear forever.”
― Matthew Dicks, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs

“Él no comprende que la gente se comporte de manera distinta según la situación.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Maybe we are all somebody’s devil,â€� Oswald says. “Maybe even me and you.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Telling stories about your life lets people know they’re not alone; and it lets some of the people closest to you â€� like family and loved ones â€� see your life apart from the context of family and without the kind of revisionist hindsight we can sometimes fall into concerning the ones we love most.”
― Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling