Jonathan Tropper Quotes

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.

I sit down on the bed, cradling her little head against my shoulder, inhaling her sweet baby scent. Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tant...

I smile. You were always so good at not covering up.Penny's smile is sad and a little off. It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.

I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial...

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

Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually f...

This is how it ends, he thinks. Strangely, he is not panicked, just a little bit sad. He tells himself to pay attention. If this is death it will only come once, and he doesn't want to miss anything....

What would you like to do today? he says. She gives him a funny look. What are my options? Sky’s the limit. She considers it for a moment. Brunch? I say the sky’s the limit and all you can come up wit...

When did being right become worthless, and being at fault irrelevant?

You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them...

You can’t let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it’s perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people’s throats. Somewhere along the way, smokers exempted themselves from the social contrac...

You still go to therapy?Nah. I gave up years ago.Mental health isn't for everyone.

[T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

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

And someday soon, I’ll rest in peace. But till that day does come, I’ll rest in pieces.

And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.

As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it.

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

Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature, he says. Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, he offers with a wry grin, Might well...