Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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• You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever…
• Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your…
• I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you…
• We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
• We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
• There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it…
• ↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's…
• ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
• Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.
• 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 is…
• It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog.…
• Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
• I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back…
• Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of…
• I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
• I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
• I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on…
• When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of…
• You never have to change a book for budget.

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