Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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• ...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…
• What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?
• Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first…
• 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 father's coffin, stunned…
• Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking…
• It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
• It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
• I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things…
• I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have…
• I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened…
• Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so…
• I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that…
• I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone…
• I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
• Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park,…
• Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the…
• Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently…
• I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He…
• I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.
• Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

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