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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

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs. — 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

The cause of what they called the "Sudden Departure" remained unknown, — Tom Perrotta

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared. — 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

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling. — Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. — Tom Perrotta

Blissfully unaware of the beautiful tradition they'd been chosen to uphold. — 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

We don't smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith. — 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

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.' — 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

I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone. — 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

Some subjects mixed well with weed, but Chemistry wasn't one of them. — 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's like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs. — Tom Perrotta

There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear. — 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

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. — Tom Perrotta

What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head. — Tom Perrotta