Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song l…

Jonathan Tropper
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Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel, p.51, Penguin
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Childhood 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 everything. ✨ Jonathan Tro … ▶
It 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.
I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
We'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, p.119, Penguin
We 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, Penguin

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel, p.51, Penguin

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