Jonathan TropperWe don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2012). One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel, p.125, Penguin362HumanityReading
Jonathan TropperWe are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under … ▶351LifeTime
Jonathan TropperChildhood 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 at the impermanence of everyt… ▶363Reading
Jonathan Tropper↑ 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 an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that … ▶342ThoughtTruth
Jonathan TropperLove made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exa… ▶365HumanityLove
Jonathan TropperI may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing367Humanity
Jonathan TropperI 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 it is. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2007). How to Talk to … ▶378Hope
Jonathan TropperPhillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. ✨ Jona… ▶346DeathReading
Jonathan TropperThings have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2012). One Last T… ▶313Reading
Jonathan TropperShe was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2011). How To Talk To … ▶357Humor
Jonathan TropperI've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.368Sadness
Jonathan TropperLife, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a gl… ▶358Life
Jonathan TropperThat's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2010). This Is Where I Leave You, p.243, Hachette UK283Life
Jonathan TropperI 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 conclusion. ✨ Jonathan Tropper … ▶316HumorLifeReading
Jonathan TropperIt would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. ✨ This Is Where I Leave You. www.imdb.com. 2014.283HumanityLifeThought
Jonathan TropperLoneliness 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 demand… ▶3310Thought
Jonathan TropperForgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2012). One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel, p.187, Penguin275Reading
Jonathan TropperI whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, Do you believe in God? Not really, he said. No. Then why do we come here? He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his ar… ▶221Reflection
Jonathan TropperEveryone 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 scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. ✨ … ▶243LoveReadingSadness
Jonathan TropperWe're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2012). One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel… ▶266Reading
Jonathan TropperSilver 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 have good reason to be; maybe then y… ▶244ReadingSadness
Jonathan TropperAt this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2011). How To Talk To A Widower, p.259, Hachette… ▶211Life
Jonathan TropperAt some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Lea… ▶222ReadingThought
Jonathan TropperYou have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that … ▶223ReadingTruth
Jonathan TropperYou lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2007… ▶223Love
Jonathan TropperIt'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. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Wh… ▶246HumanityReading
Jonathan TropperSometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (… ▶247HumanityLoveReading
Jonathan TropperAs far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.236Sadness
Jonathan TropperBut the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.236Time
Jonathan TropperWe are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I L… ▶214ReadingSadness
