It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school,… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“I'm halfway through my life, and as far as I can tell, the real lesson of the past isn't that I made… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Not that they would, but if any of the other mothers had asked how it was that Sarah, of all people, had… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn’t help reminding her… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“Stan and Rudy are grown men. It's too late to shape their minds, to teach them values and a sense of compassion. You have… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks up where… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“Something had happened to him ove the past couple of years, something to do with being home with Aaron, sinking into the rhythm of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
“us, Will had invited his camp counselor buddy, Dylan, and Dylan had brought along his roommate, this annoying kid named Sanjay. I mean, it… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share
