“Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they’re never really gone.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“You swear you’ll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“If they’re letting her cry anyway, I don’t really see the point of the baby monitor, but that’s one of those questions… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you the same thing I told your father. We make mistakes. They don't make us. If they did, we'd all… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“...but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.” — 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
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
