236 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

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

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

In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.

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.

The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman’s skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.

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.

It’s a sad moment when you come to understand how truly replaceable you are.

Besides, I came from the eighties, a neon, hair-sprayed decade from which very little music made it out alive.