I read an interesting novel by Jonathan Tropper called One Last Thing Before I Go and it had some of the best quotes. I have never used my highlight tool on my Kindle so much. For this post I am going to share some of my favorites. It's a little dark, but he is the kind of writer than makes me want to be a writer-
"Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like."
"He has loved more women than any man should. He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken."
"At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting your hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yesterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better."
"So every other weekend they spend an hour or so together that leaves them all depressed and depleted, but they never miss it, and if that's not the best definition of family, then he doesn't know what is."
"We're all clichés, Casey thinks, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role."
I will definitely be reading more from this author. I love how he describes something that you have felt yourself but in a way that gives you such a clear image of his character in that moment.
The one about family probably made me the saddest but then it also made me laugh very knowingly. Isn't that just how it is sometimes?....
Have a great week.
Watch out for more quote filled posts...I'm reading Walden now
