"It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem."

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Source : Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.245, Penguin

Jonathan Tropper

#World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; itâ€™s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isnâ€™t what love is.”
“I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.”
“I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.”

Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.
“Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.”
“Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.”
“Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!”
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you”

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