Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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• We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number…
• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried…
• There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the…
• That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
• Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
• At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
• I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a…
• She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
• Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in…
• But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
• You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t…
• 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…
• You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but…
• Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to…
• You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've…
• You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It…
• 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 do…
• Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter…
• At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
• We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

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