Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.

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

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

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

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

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

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.

The future just isn't what it used to be

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.

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

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

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.

Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

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

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

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

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

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.

...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.

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.

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

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

You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

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

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

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