"Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of……" — Jonathan Tropper
"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, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood."
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60 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper
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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…
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We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living…
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There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no…
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
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At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
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I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took…
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being…
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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and…
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But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see…
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You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all…
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And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties,…
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