Everything Changes Quotes

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“here's the thing. I don't think you're in love with her, not all the way. If you were, I think you would seem more certain about it. More jazzed. You wouldn't hug me the way we hug, and say the things you say to me. You definitely wouldn't have kissed me the other day the way you did. I'm not saying you're in love with me. I'm just saying that whatever this thing is you feel toward me, this thing we're both too scared to mention, I don't think it could exist if you were head over heels in live with Hope. And if that's the case, if youre not head over heels in love with her, you shouldnt marry her."
P.268”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“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.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“Sometimes you don’t need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don’t need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“even when someone is deserving of your anger, they’re still deserving of compassion. It’s hard to pull off, believe me—no one knows that more than me. And if you’re only going to pull it off a handful of times in your life, why not for family?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“And no matter which way you turn your desperate gaze, there’s absolutely no land in sight, which is strange, because you didn’t think you’d gone out that far to begin with.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card.
P.15”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“If I could tell her the truth, I would say I’m looking for flaws. Because that’s what you do when you’re in love with someone you don’t want to be in love with. You look for imperfections in their skin, oddities in their features. You picture how they will age, where time will tarnish them. You try to catch them at harsh angles, discern some measure of awkwardness where their limbs connect to their trunks. You search for these deficiencies with an air of desperation, ready to lay claim to whatever you find, to inflate it grotesquely in your mind, and in doing so set yourself free. I would say that I’m paralyzed, that I see things I can’t reach for, have itches I can’t scratch. And then there are the parts of me that I can’t feel anymore at all. That my days are filled with a quiet dread that has as much to do with her, or at least the potential of her,”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I was as sure as I could humanly be, and still, I failed. So what do you think your chances are if you’ve already got serious doubts?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I’m tired of having a plan. I’ve been planning my whole life, and it isn’t working. I just want to sit back and breathe for a minute, figure out who the hell I am.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“You’re thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it’s too late to apply to yourself.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“When did being right become worthless, and being at fault irrelevant?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“he’d continue to cry passionately, long after he’d forgotten why he was crying to begin with.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn’t exist, Kafka would have to invent us.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“Things have been going too well for me lately. I feel like I have some bad karma headed my way.” Tamara frowns at me as she leads me toward the dressing rooms. “That’s a pretty dire outlook on life,” she says. “What’s the point in working to be happy if you’re going to be constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering when it’s time to pay the bill?”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“You’re thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother. It has to be unconscious, because conscious, you’d know right away that it’s a big mistake. Somewhere, there’s a therapist sitting alone in his office, staring wistfully at his door, wishing for a patient like you.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“It occurs to me, just before I pass out, that maybe I was miserable before, but things were going too well for me to notice it.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“maybe what you consider fearlessness is actually just an expert level of loneliness.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“Consequences are a concept for the sober.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“I stand between these two attractive people as something of an oddity, like the guy taking the light readings at a photo shoot, miraculously connected to both of them, conspicuously average; the man in the middle.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“She’s pretty in an unsophisticated way, like a Midwestern farm girl, and you can see the wide-open prairies behind her, the blue-skied meadows in her eyes.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“You’re just the sperm donor, Norm,” he says, heading for the door. “That’s all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm.”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“it’s a point of pride whenever you can point to the ways in which you’re avoiding your progenitor’s defective character. I’m not like him becomes your mantra,”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes

“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”
― Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes