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...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan TropperTags: understanding poignant inner-self
Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.
Jonathan TropperAnd 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.
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 TropperTags: wisdom thinking alone thoughts desperation
Solange unsere Gedanken nicht durch Scham oder Schuldgefühle gefiltert werden, sind sie selbstsüchtig oder lieblos und daher größtenteils zu keinem Zeitpunkt für den öffentlichen Konsum gedacht, da sie entweder verletzend wären oder uns wie die selbstsüchtigen, lieblosen Bastarde dastehen ließen, die wir nun mal sind. Das, woran wir andere teilhaben lassen, sind nicht unsere wahren Gedanken, sondern sorgfältig geschönte, verwässerte Versionen, sozusagen Hollywood-Adaptionen der ursprünglichen Gedanken.
Jonathan TropperI wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
Jonathan TropperTags: forgiveness anger
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[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[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.
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