Jonathan Tropper Quotes

Jonathan Tropper is an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College.

✵ 19. February 1970  •  Other names 強納生‧崔普爾

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Famous Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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

Source: The Book of Joe (2005), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Book_of_Joe.html?id=_T5MCwAL4owC,

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

Jonathan Tropper

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Jonathan Tropper Quotes about love

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Jonathan Tropper Quotes about people

“It'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

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

This Is Where I Leave You (2009), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/This_Is_Where_I_Leave_You.html?id=3jVps2Z9LQcC, <br class="br">Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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

Jonathan Tropper Quotes

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

This Is Where I Leave You (2009), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/This_Is_Where_I_Leave_You.html?id=3jVps2Z9LQcC, <br class="br">Source: This is Where I Leave You

“We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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 Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“Phillip 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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: How to Talk to a Widower

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“A problem is something to solve,” Phillip says. “If there’s no solution, it’s not a problem, so stop treating it like one.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“I 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

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?”

Jonathan Tropper

“Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: This is Where I Leave You

“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.”

Jonathan Tropper

Source: How to Talk to a Widower

“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

Source: This is Where I Leave You

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

Jonathan Tropper

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

“At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent.”

Jonathan Tropper

This is Where I Leave You

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