{"author":"Jonathan Tropper","author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["people","interesting","find "],"id":29944,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["loss","love","mourning"],"id":43867,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"...You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["inner-self","poignant","understanding"],"id":45680,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["anger","father","grudge","rencor"],"id":67112,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["dreams","one-last-thing-before-i-go"],"id":71675,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["depression","drink","drunk","drunkeness","fire","grief","sadness"],"id":74670,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["fart","funny","humour","joke","pity","sad","sadness"],"id":79094,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["hurt","love","pain","scars","true","true-love"],"id":93423,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["family","grief","life"],"id":152120,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"},{"text":"There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.","author":"Jonathan Tropper","tags":["grief","grieving","last-times"],"id":152397,"author_id":"Jonathan+Tropper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}