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This is Where I Leave You QUOTES

This is Where I Leave You QUOTES

1 " If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

2 " It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

3 " Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the fundamentals of copulation so that it’s impossible to get a particularly good view of the sex you’re having. Because when you get right down to it, sex is a messy, gritty, often grotesque business to behold: the hairs; the abraded, dimpled flesh; the wide-open orifices; the exposed, glistening organs. And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we’re all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping and fucking as much as possible before our something bigger comes along and devours us. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

4 " I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

5 " I 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 Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

6 " There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

7 " Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

8 " It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

9 " Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

10 " ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

11 " 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 Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

12 " ...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

13 " Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

14 " You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

15 " It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

16 " We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

17 " Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

18 " You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

19 " You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You

20 " Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. "

― Jonathan Tropper , This is Where I Leave You