Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know.

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.

We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are.

I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.