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 in This is Where I Leave You

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About Jonathan Tropper

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Jonathan Tropper (born February 19, 1970) is an American author, writer, director, and producer. He is best known as the co-creator of the Cinemax television series Banshee (2013–2016) and as the creator of the Cinemax series Warrior (2019–2023) and the Apple TV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors (2025–present).

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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 in This is Where I Leave You

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There 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.

—Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go

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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 in One Last Thing Before I Go

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.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

—Daniel Berrigan

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That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.

—Sarah Rayner in One Morning

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Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

—Lisa Scottoline in Come Home

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