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
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better… — 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
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
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
