Jonathan Tropper Quotes

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be ...

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reac...

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, lik...

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your ph...

It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down ...

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone els...

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's...

The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are m...

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has e...

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we ...

You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you...

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "N...

She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow miss...

I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myse...

I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what ha...

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not...

Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangel...

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At som...

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation res...

It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.