Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressedโalthough he doesnโt know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then youโre simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.
Jonathan Tropper...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan TropperEveryone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
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 Tropper