“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 ElectionSource: Election
“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 Source: Joe College
“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”Tom Perrotta book The LeftoversSource: The Leftovers
“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”Tom Perrotta book The LeftoversSource: The Leftovers