Quotes by : Tom Perrotta

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

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies....

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell....

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people....

It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.....

Laurie herself was more focused on the years when her kids were little, when she felt so necessary and....

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American....

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.....

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage....