Old man Quote by Michael Perry

“I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.”

— Nancy Pickard

“Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn’t want anything that’s owed to his father, Tom can’t wait to get his hands…

— Melina Marchetta

“What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!”

— Mark Twain

“He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged.…

— Harvard Lampoon

“If I said that I couldn't live without Tom, it wouldn't be true. Of course I can live without him. It's just that it…

— Anna Maxted

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

— Mark Twain

“You may thank God you didn’t want to be an actor, Tom, because you would have been a very bad one. You worked it…

— John Steinbeck

“He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict…

— S.J. Kincaid

“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

“Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys…

— S.J. Kincaid

“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly…

— Penelope Lively