One Last Thing Before I Go Quotes

“Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just...stopped.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“And ice-cream cones,' she says. 'What is it with you and ice-cream cones?'

He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first moment after impact, or, he supposes, when you're drowning. Love or panic. The two have always been fairly indistinguishable to him.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“[T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“It’s hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it’s hard to believe that it didn’t give up years ago.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“He was right here and nowhere to be found.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“There’s nothing more depressing than waking up in your shoes.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“At some point, loneliness become 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 you 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 yerterday, 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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn’t say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“[N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“What would you like to do today?” he says. She gives him a funny look. “What are my options?” “Sky’s the limit.” She considers it for a moment. “Brunch?” “I say the sky’s the limit and all you can come up with is brunch?” “I’m just not sure we live under the same sky.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“Someone should sing, Silver thinks, and then someone does-a low, somewhat hoarse man's voice singing "Amazing Grace" quietly but with great sincerity. Ruben's eyes grow wide, and almost in the same instant that it occurs to Silver that "Amazing Grace" is not sung at Jewish funerals, he recognizes the singing voice as his own.

But Mrs. Zeiring is looking at him, not with anger or surprise, but a strange half-smile, and he decides that the only thing worse than spontaneously breaking into a Christian hymn at a Jewish funeral while dressed for a wedding would be to not finish it. So he does...”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go