Quotes from Jonathan Tropper

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time.

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.

I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.

Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.

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

A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

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.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time?

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you're not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. 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.

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.

Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon.

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.

and if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.

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

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.