I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
Tom PerrottaMaybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
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 of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that theyโd actually made some sort of choice.
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 be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.
Tom PerrottaIf anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
Tom PerrottaI'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.
Tom Perrotta