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

Jonathan Tropper

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

Tags: meditative

He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.

Jonathan Tropper

He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.

About Author
Jonathan Tropper (born February 19, 1970) is an American screenwriter, novelist, and producer. He is the author of six novels. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the Cinemax television series Banshee (2013–2016) and the creator of the Cinemax television series Warrior (2019–present).

Lo que pasa es que, cuando llevas un tiempo casado, cada vez te cuesta más perderte en el sexo como antes. Es porque te has vuelto demasiado eficiente, has aprendido lo que funciona y lo que no, por l...

Jonathan Tropper

Lo que pasa es que, cuando llevas un tiempo casado, cada vez te cuesta más perderte en el sexo como antes. Es porque te has vuelto demasiado eficiente, has aprendido lo que funciona y lo que no, por l...

Tags: pareja, sexo, sexualidad

Non sai mai quando sarà l'ultima volta in cui vedi tuo padre o baci tua moglie o giochi con il tuo fratellino, ma c'è sempre un'ultima volta. Se riuscissimo a ricordare ogni ultima volta, non smettere...

Jonathan Tropper

Non sai mai quando sarà l'ultima volta in cui vedi tuo padre o baci tua moglie o giochi con il tuo fratellino, ma c'è sempre un'ultima volta. Se riuscissimo a ricordare ogni ultima volta, non smettere...

Tags: morte, separazione

Lo que he aprendido, después de nueve años de riñas matrimoniales, es que todo lo que viene después del «pero» es una mierda—.

Jonathan Tropper

Lo que he aprendido, después de nueve años de riñas matrimoniales, es que todo lo que viene después del «pero» es una mierda—.

Tags: pareja

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...

Jonathan Tropper

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...

Tags: death, fear, protectiveness, wall

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 tim...

Jonathan Tropper

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 tim...

Tags: drink, drunk, drunkeness, fire, grief, sadness

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 ey...

Jonathan Tropper

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 ey...

Tags: body art, jonathan tropper, piercing, piercings, rebellion, teenagers

I’m not a fan of country music, but there’s no better music to drive to. Turn the right song up loud enough on the Porsche’s sound system and it will swallow you whole. The past is prelude and the fut...

Jonathan Tropper

I’m not a fan of country music, but there’s no better music to drive to. Turn the right song up loud enough on the Porsche’s sound system and it will swallow you whole. The past is prelude and the fut...

↑ top up position downThe fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am i...

Jonathan Tropper

↑ top up position downThe fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am i...

Tags: humor, jonathan tropper

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fu...

Jonathan Tropper

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fu...

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.

Jonathan Tropper

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.

Tags: loss, love, mourning

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

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.

Tags: people, interesting, find

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

Jonathan Tropper

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

Llega un momento en el que estar enfadado no es más que un mal hábito, como fumar, que te va envenenando sin que te des cuenta.

Jonathan Tropper

Llega un momento en el que estar enfadado no es más que un mal hábito, como fumar, que te va envenenando sin que te des cuenta.

Tags: rabia, sentimientos

But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There’s that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses.

Jonathan Tropper

But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There’s that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses.

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in...

Jonathan Tropper

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in...

Tags: father, grudge, rencor

He’d continue to cry passionately, long after he’d forgotten why he was crying to begin with.

Jonathan Tropper

He’d continue to cry passionately, long after he’d forgotten why he was crying to begin with.

This was his childhood, safe and warm and brightly lit, and being here now makes him feel like he died years ago and he's now a lost spirit, stuck between worlds with unfinished business.

Jonathan Tropper

This was his childhood, safe and warm and brightly lit, and being here now makes him feel like he died years ago and he's now a lost spirit, stuck between worlds with unfinished business.

No one under eighty moves to Florida. Isn’t that like a federal statute or something?

Jonathan Tropper

No one under eighty moves to Florida. Isn’t that like a federal statute or something?