Top 70 Tom Perrotta Quotes (2024 Update)
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Tom Perrotta Quote: “And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid needed you for everything and wasn’t afraid to say so.”

51. “And when Aaron called out for him just then, right on time, there was something beautiful about that, too, the way a little kid needed you for everything and wasn’t afraid to say so.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.”

52. “What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”

54. “When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “I’m used to adapting my novels for feature film – it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

55. “I’m used to adapting my novels for feature film – it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.”

56. “She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”

57. “I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.”

58. “Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.”

59. “My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another?”

60. “After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another?”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “If I’d known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons.”

61. “If I’d known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she’d been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she’d met a kind and decent man who loved her.”

62. “Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she’d been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she’d met a kind and decent man who loved her.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “Tinder was like tequila – fun today, sad tomorrow.”

63. “Tinder was like tequila – fun today, sad tomorrow.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “We’re agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don’t know if there’s a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don’t.”

64. “We’re agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don’t know if there’s a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don’t.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.”

65. “The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.”

66. “I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “Was it possible that they’d crossed without realizing it, each one rounding the corner of the aisle the other one had just vacated at exactly the same time?”

67. “Was it possible that they’d crossed without realizing it, each one rounding the corner of the aisle the other one had just vacated at exactly the same time?”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “Doesn’t settle for less than she deserves, or apologize unless it’s absolutely necessary.”

68. “Doesn’t settle for less than she deserves, or apologize unless it’s absolutely necessary.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “It just so happened that for most of my life I’ve lived in the suburbs.”

69. “It just so happened that for most of my life I’ve lived in the suburbs.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “She was about to laugh at the selfishness of her reaction, but she was distracted by the cool evening air when she stepped outside, the dusky blue of the sky, and the freshly paved street in front of her, its blackness bisected by a bright yellow line, a world so inexplicably beautiful that she forgot what she was thinking about and just stood still for a moment, breathing it all in.”

70. “She was about to laugh at the selfishness of her reaction, but she was distracted by the cool evening air when she stepped outside, the dusky blue of the sky, and the freshly paved street in front of her, its blackness bisected by a bright yellow line, a world so inexplicably beautiful that she forgot what she was thinking about and just stood still for a moment, breathing it all in.”

— Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta Quote: “My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.”

71. “My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.”

— Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta Quote: “She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.”

72. “She was the kind of woman who always surprised you with the realization that she was just as lovely as you remembered, though it hardly seemed possible in her absence.”

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Tom Perrotta Quote: “As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling at the pretty girls and scowling at the boys who didn’t play sports. Somebody should have stuck a broom in his hand and made him an honest man.”

73. “As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling at the pretty girls and scowling at the boys who didn’t play sports. Somebody should have stuck a broom in his hand and made him an honest man.”

— Tom Perrotta

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