Plan B Quotes

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Until you found your way out of the woods, it was reassuring to find other people lost in them with you.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Relationships don’t come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Nothing doesn’t happen all at once. It starts slow, so slow that you don’t even notice it. And then, when you do, you banish it to the back of your mind in a hail of rationalizations and resolutions. You get busy, you bury yourself in your meaningless work, and for a while you keep the consciousness of Nothing at bay. But then something happens and you’re forced to face the fact that Nothing is happening to you right now, and has been for some time.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“The future just isn't what it used to be”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“It must be tough,” I said sincerely. “Having no clear line between your reality and your bullshit.” “There’s a line,” Jack said. “It just moves around a lot.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“If anything, love is just a starting point. Then life intrudes, along with the personal baggage you’ve spent years packing, and things get royally and irrevocably fucked up. You can get bitter or you can keep trying. Most people do some of each.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“It wasn’t that she didn’t love me, I knew that she did, and that actually made it worse. If someone leaves you because they don’t love you, it’s a tough break, but as they say, life’s a bitch, get a helmet. But if someone loves you and leaves you anyway, you enter a whole new realm of self-doubt and recrimination, what psychologists call the what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-me syndrome.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Don’t you ever worry about the future?” I asked. Jack shrugged. “This is the future,” he said.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“You could tell he was a bad guy because he didn't have a tan”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“One of the earliest memories I have of my father is of him urinating... What must it be like, I wondered, to unleash so much power through so flimsy an attachment?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Around age twenty-six, in an effort to stave off thirty, I began embracing the new alternative angst bands, like Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, et cetera, but at thirty, little of that remains. At thirty, you’re back to the comforting sounds you grew up with. You have enough genuine angst of your own, you don’t need it in your music.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“When you're younger you just take it as a given that things will fall into place on their own. Relationships, family, careers, the whole deal. They might not come as you picture them, but they come in some form. You just never figure that they might not come at all. And then you hit thirty and...shit! You suddenly realize that they're not necessarily coming and you panic.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“It’s funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Now we had to work to make ourselves fit into each other’s lives, to maintain our relevance to each other. In college our collective friendship had been at the center of our lives, and now the centrifugal force of time had pushed it out to the perimeter, where it was in danger of spinning off the circle altogether. Thirty . . . shit.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“Then I’m telling it wrong.” “Bad?” “Yes. Divorce shouldn’t be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing,”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“I don’t think any of us really knows how to knock someone out,” Chuck said thoughtfully. “You knock someone out with a blow to the head, its got to be a hard one, and nine out of ten times the victim will suffer a concussion. It isn’t like those wimpy little karate chops to the back of the neck Captain Kirk is always using.” “What we need is a Vulcan pinch,” I said. “Are they referencing Star Trek again?” Alison asked. “They are,” said Lindsey. “Why do they always have to do that?” “Because they have penises.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“If I were an athlete I’d be past my prime. If I were a dog I’d be dead. Thirty . . . shit.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B

“back (thank god for office accessorizing, the last playground of the reluctant adult).”
― Jonathan Tropper, Plan B