Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
Tom PerrottaMeg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.
Tom PerrottaTo this day, sheโs still sad. Because thereโs not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. Iโm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didnโt hurt me at all.
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 Perrotta