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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.

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  Beautiful, Smart, Kind

  Jonathan Tropper (2011). “How To Talk To A Widower”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  True Love, Pain, Answers

  "The Book of Joe". Book by Jonathan Tropper, 2005.

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

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  Looks, Lasts, Feels

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• You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Husband, Wife, Doe

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.113, Bantam

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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.

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  Pain, Bullets, Shots

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

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  I've Learned, Pity, Fart

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam

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• Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

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  Different, Our Family, Different Directions

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

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  Disappear, Instant, Feels

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

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  Love, Hate, People

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

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  Lonely, Believe, Years

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Years, Skins, Trying

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.

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  Girl, Jobs, Kissing

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• Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.

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  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

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• ...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.

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  Falling In Love, Color, Mind

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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.

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  People, Parent, Impossible

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.253, Penguin

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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.

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  Father, Childhood, One Day

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Passion, Heartache, Way

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Song, Common Sense, Brain

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

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  Prayer, Dad, Believe

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

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  Fate, Packs

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.195, Penguin

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• You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

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  Running, Hate, Sleep

  Jonathan Tropper (2005). “Everything Changes”, p.20, Bantam

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• But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

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  Naps, Afternoon, Sometimes

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• As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Awkward, Advantage, Inarticulate

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• The future just isn't what it used to be

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  Used, Used To Be

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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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.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Falling In Love, Color, Mind

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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