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 More Quotes by Tom Perrotta More Quotes From Tom Perrotta She 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 be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them. Tom Perrotta girl inspiration life He 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 made book thinking 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 her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all. Tom Perrotta pain hurt mind Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything. Tom Perrotta lasts forever world It's like the human race has been programmed for misery. Tom Perrotta misery humans race She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good. Tom Perrotta real summer cute I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. Tom Perrotta small-changes ruts sometimes Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. Tom Perrotta tragedy littles people I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. Tom Perrotta guitar dream play I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle. Tom Perrotta angle ifs believe I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. Tom Perrotta musician wanted I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. Tom Perrotta novelists past years I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump. Tom Perrotta college summer men From 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 it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. Tom Perrotta distance life thinking The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel. Tom Perrotta feel know process way
