236 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

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

I’m tired of having a plan. I’ve been planning my whole life, and it isn’t working. I just want to sit back and breathe for a minute, figure out who the hell I am.

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

There is a sense of violation in learning that, unbeknownst to me, my mind has maintained such a strong connection with the town, as if my brain’s been sneaking around behind my back.

We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Love made us partners in narcissism.

And even if you didn’t fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.

Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you’re not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.