“ To 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 pain that was inside of… Tom Perrotta
“ Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together. 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 your words are futile, you’re better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place. 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
“ 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
“ Taylor Swift wasn’t actually one of them—she was just pretending, the same way Jesus had pretended to be a man. That was why she stood in front of the line, ahead of the others rather than among them.… Tom Perrotta
“ Here’s why at the Jesus beds they can only talk about all the stupid shit they’ve done—because that’s all they are now, all they’re ever gonna be, a twitching bunch of memories and mistakes. Regrets.… Tom Perrotta
“ As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using it to silence or ignore… Tom Perrotta
“ After 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 of them at any given… Tom Perrotta
“ I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossib… Tom Perrotta
“ I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. Tom Perrotta
“ Found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters Tom Perrotta
“ She wanted to read and think and reconnect with her collegiate self, which had been so much more open and fluid and hopeful than the versions that had succeeded it. Tom Perrotta
“ She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready. Tom Perrotta
