Jonathan Tropper citations

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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