...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan TropperWe are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
Jonathan TropperI wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.
Jonathan TropperBut the muse wonโt always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes sheโd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
Jonathan TropperYou can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.
Jonathan Tropper