Small pleasures Quote by Tom Perrotta

“And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid…

— Tom Perrotta

“As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He is just like other people to…

— Eudora Welty

“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some…

— Tao Lin

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I was aware that it was unusual, in modern times, for me not to hate Aaron or resent him for all of his apparent…

— Denise Weeks

“He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new…

— Sinclair Lewis

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow, now nearly…

— Kim Edwards

“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways…

— M.R. Carey

“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a…

— Edmond De Goncourt

“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And at several…

— Hermann Hesse