Tom PerrottaHe'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday… ▶371HumanityReading
Tom PerrottaMeg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the pe… ▶362HumanityLoveReading
Tom PerrottaShe would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly … ▶363Reading
Tom PerrottaIt's like the human race has been programmed for misery. ✨ The Leftovers. Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.375HumanityReading
Tom PerrottaTo this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pa… ▶322DeathReadingSadness
Tom PerrottaSooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.335Love
Tom PerrottaIf anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst. ✨ Tom Perrotta (2007). Little Children: A Novel, p.34, Macmillan369LoveReading
Tom PerrottaBack then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. ✨ The Leftovers. Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.304ReadingThoughtTime
Tom PerrottaOnce you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.3510Sadness
Tom PerrottaThey both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that… ▶319PoliticsReading
Tom PerrottaAfter all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected… ▶253DeathHumanityLife
Tom PerrottaIt 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. ✨ The Leftovers. Book … ▶266HumanityLifeReading
Tom PerrottaApparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. ✨ The Leftovers. Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.255DeathHumanityReading
Tom PerrottaHe 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 (2006). Joe College: A Novel, p.48, Macmillan2710ReadingThought
Tom PerrottaMaybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.226HumanityLoveThought
Tom PerrottaIt felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a re… ▶248Reading
Tom PerrottaJill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared a… ▶248LifeReading
Tom PerrottaNothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.237Reading
Tom PerrottaThere's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. ✨ The Leftovers. Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.2410DeathReadingSadness
Tom PerrottaEvery minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bu… ▶186DeathReading
Tom PerrottaIt's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. ✨ Tom Perrotta (2013). Little Children, p.144, Allison & Busby199Time
Tom PerrottaFrom a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close … ▶157HumanityPoliticsReading
Tom PerrottaBecause, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?1710Life
