“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“If we'd been on speaking terms, I might've told her that I'd come to think of sex as this long dark tunnel that turns friends into strangers, strangers into friends.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“It's a bad dream: my English teacher is standing naked at the foot of this slightly lumpy bed, clutching a pair of not-quite-white underpants in his hand, studying me with this creepy look on his face, the one he gets when he's reading aloud in class and wants us to think he's moved by the passage.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“I'd come to think of sex as this long dark tunnel that turns friends into strangers, strangers into friends.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“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, quote from Election
“No one knows what love is," he told me. "If someone says they do, they're full of shit.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“What about Clinton?" I asked. "He's pretty interesting."
"Ugh." Dad looked disgusted. "That guy. He could stand out in the rain all day and not get wet.”
“Diane used to joke that I was getting in touch with my own inner asshole, but all I was really doing was claiming my American birthright. There's a sales professional lying dormant in each and every one of us, just waiting for a chance to blossom.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“Stan and Rudy are grown men. It's too late to shape their minds, to teach them values and a sense of compassion. You have to do that when kids are young, before their personalities harden and they come to love their own ignorance.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
Tom Perrotta
Born place: in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
Born date August 13, 1961
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“What does it … feel like, to have lost an entire world?’
‘Lonely.’ Rat raised his many-ringed hand to rub at his neck under his broad jaw. ‘But the loneliness comes from the question.”
― Samuel R. Delany, quote from Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
“If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Diplomatic Immunity
“Lion had to kiss her then and there, even though when he kissed her he felt as though he were swallowing her sadness.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Blackbird House
“Thus have they committed two great evils, in which they persist, and from which they hate to be reformed; they take away from God's word, and add to his worship.”
― Matthew Henry, quote from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
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