The best Quotes by Peter Quint

Sometimes, right can seem wrong, and wrong can seem right. But that's the difference between children and adults. Seeing the big picture.

You know what life is really all about, Miles? Keys. See, people are like locked rooms. They’ve all got different locks and you’ve got to guess the shape of their key.

It's good to know when a man asks you to put something in your mouth, he doesn't have to ask twice.

To truly love another person is to accept the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them.

I'm a lot braver than people think. Including me.

All things fade. All things. Flesh, stone, even stars themselves.
Time takes all things. It is the way of the world.
The past recedes, memories fade, and so, true, does the spirit.
Everything yields to time, even the soul.

The wrong kind of love can f*ck you up, follow you and make you do some really stupid shit.

Time takes all things. It is the way of the world.

People do, don't they? Mix up love and possession. I don't think that should be possible. I mean, they're opposites, really. Love and ownership.

There's a difference between feeling good and feeling alive. The two aren't always the same.

We can't count on the past. We think we have it trapped in our memories, but memories fade and they're wrong. Any of us could die at any moment, or we could forget our entire lives, which is kind of like dying.

Sometimes, people just need to be alone.

You don't have to lose yourself to find happiness, you know.

Your parents loved you so, so much that, in a way, they'll always be here.

Dead doesn't mean gone.

The kids like us, like you and me and Flora, we're special. We grow up faster than other kids. And even more special, we really get to choose the grown-ups that we keep in our life.

When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.

We're not defined by what we los. We're defined by what we survive.