Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Next time she’d have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face.… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — 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
“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
I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. — 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
“She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.” — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a… — 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
“I think there have been a lot of writers who’ve been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a… — 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
