And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins… — 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
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“shudders and seems to sink a bit further. “And the contractor is running two other jobs in the neighborhood. The Jacobsons, he’s redoing their… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
