Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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Things 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.

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You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

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

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Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

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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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The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

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Life, 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 glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

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Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

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You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

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Sometimes 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.

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I 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.

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We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

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I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

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At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

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You 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 pretty much no one can do it.

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Everyone 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.

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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.

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Love 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 exactly right.

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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.

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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 a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.

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There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

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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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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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