Jonathan Tropper quotes

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. (Jonathan Tropper)
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. View quote
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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. View quote
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The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while. View quote
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You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. View quote
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Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. View quote
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role. View quote
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... you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. View quote
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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. (Jonathan Tropper)
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. View quote
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You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. View quote
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You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving. View quote
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Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. View quote
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I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong. View quote
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Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. View quote
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I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing. View quote
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I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks. View quote
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. View quote
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I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion. (Jonathan Tropper)
What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time? View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents. View quote
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Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time. View quote
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