236 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

The life you build feels like the entire world, and when it’s suddenly gone, the world doesn’t make sense for a while. Or, in his case, ever again.

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. Like he did when he was alive.

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.

Everybody dies alone. That’s a fact. Some more alone than others.

And no matter which way you turn your desperate gaze, there’s absolutely no land in sight, which is strange, because you didn’t think you’d gone out that far to begin with.

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

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 future is a black hole, but right now, hurtling north across state lines for no particular reason, I have to say, it feels pretty good to be me.

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

None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. – Judd Foxman.