I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tantrums, she'll need therapy, she'll… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with college kids. I blame Hollywood for skewing their perspective. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“But someday I'll fall in love again, right? I'll start over with someone, and maybe we'll buy a big old house with… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“here's the thing. I don't think you're in love with her, not all the way. If you were, I think you would… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I sit down on the bed, cradling her little head against my shoulder, inhaling her sweet baby scent. Someday she'll get older,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Wendy taught me to curse, matched my clothing, brushed my hair before school, and let me sleep in bed with her when… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Jen shakes her head sadly and I can see her lower lip trembling, the tear that's starting to form in the corner… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
