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It was a good day for a parade, sunny and unseasonably warm, the sky a Sunday school cartoon of heaven.
— Tom Perrotta
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?
— Tom Perrotta
Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
— Tom Perrotta
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
— Tom Perrotta
Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.
— Tom Perrotta
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
— Tom Perrotta
these leftover memories
— Tom Perrotta
NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!
— Tom Perrotta
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
— Tom Perrotta
It had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness
— Tom Perrotta
Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.
— Tom Perrotta
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
I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.
— Tom Perrotta
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
— Tom Perrotta
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
— Tom Perrotta
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."
— Tom Perrotta
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
— Tom Perrotta
Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.
— Tom Perrotta
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
— Tom Perrotta
As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.
— Tom Perrotta
My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.
— Tom Perrotta
He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.
— Tom Perrotta
The world she'd been raised to live in no longer existed.
— Tom Perrotta
When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place.
— Tom Perrotta
Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.
— Tom Perrotta
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
— Tom Perrotta
Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.
— Tom Perrotta
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.
— Tom Perrotta
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
— Tom Perrotta
If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
— Tom Perrotta
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
— Tom Perrotta
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
— Tom Perrotta
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
— Tom Perrotta
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
— Tom Perrotta
It's a matter of dignity," the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left.
— Tom Perrotta
I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
— Tom Perrotta
She wasn't a tragic widow, after all, just another woman betrayed by a selfish man. It was a smaller, more familiar role, and a lot easier to play.
— Tom Perrotta
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
— Tom Perrotta
Just a dark shape against an even darker background.
— Tom Perrotta
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
— Tom Perrotta
It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.
— Tom Perrotta
A girl from his English class who'd overdosed on sleeping pills after learning of the disappearance of her identical twin.
— Tom Perrotta
Oddly emphatic, as if she'd been waiting all day for a chance to discuss the weather.
— Tom Perrotta
There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)
— Tom Perrotta
Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action.
— Tom Perrotta
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 could negotiate in silence.
— Tom Perrotta