Best Tom Perrotta Quotes
- I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears,… Bears
- 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 with the things… Action
- I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two… Action
- My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays… America
- Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. Abstinence
- He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson… Accepted
- After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little… Actually Made
- From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the… Bewildering
- If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst. All
- It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. Accept
- It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he… Attended
- Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. Extinguish
- Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? Awake
- She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except… Any
- There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) Amount
- Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It… Always Like
- He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood. All
- Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well… Ache
- Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. All
- It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they… Communication
- To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of… All
- They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and… Beyond
- Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then,… Breakup