Quotes by : Tom Perrotta

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything....

Next time she’d have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face.....

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

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads....

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....