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Jonathan Tropper Quotes | Quotes said by Jonathan Tropper

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #1

    ...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.


  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #2

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #3

    All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #4

    And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being
    angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
    yourself without thinking about it.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #5

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #6

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #7

    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.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #8

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #9

    I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you're doing, that vital valve that keeps you deeper, truer emotions under lock and key. I don't know exactly when I lost it, or how to get it back, but for now when it comes to tact, civility, and discretion, I'm an accident waiting to happen, over and over again.

    Socially, that makes me something of a liability.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #10

    I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #11

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #12

    I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #13

    I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #14

    I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #15

    I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #16

    I 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 arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. I've been wrong before, he said.
    And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #17

    I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #18

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #19

    It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #20

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #21

    Love made us partners in narcissism

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #22

    Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #23

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #24

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #25

    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.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #26

    The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #27

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #28

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

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #29

    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.

  • Jonathan Tropper Quote #30

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

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