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

This is Where I Leave You

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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

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One Last Thing Before I Go

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

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One Last Thing Before I Go

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

One Last Thing Before I Go

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

One Last Thing Before I Go

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

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One Last Thing Before I Go

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

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One Last Thing Before I Go

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

One Last Thing Before I Go

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

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The Book of Joe

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

This is Where I Leave You

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

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How to Talk to a Widower

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

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How to Talk to a Widower

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

How to Talk to a Widower

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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How to Talk to a Widower

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

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How to Talk to a Widower

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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

This is Where I Leave You

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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

This is Where I Leave You

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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...

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This is Where I Leave You

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

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This is Where I Leave You

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

This is Where I Leave You

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Jonathan Tropper

Writer

Born: 1970-02-19

Died: N/A

Jonathan Tropper (born 19 February 1970) is an American writer and a professor of English at Manhattanville College.More