Quotes by : Tom Perrotta

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested....

Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget....

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....

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....

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

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