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Tom Perrotta Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“It was exhilarating to melt into the crowd like that, to feel his identity dissolving into something bigger and more powerful.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Crowd, Crowd Mentality, The Power of Crowds
“Laurie Garvey hadn't been raised to believe in the Rapture.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: first lines of books, Rapture
“The Rapture is obviously a cataclysmic event. But I started realizing it was a metaphor for getting older, for mortality, and living with mortality. It’s really powerful. We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Rapture Now, End of the World, Death, Loss
“For now, though, he'd just have to add her name to the list of people he cared about who'd moved on. It was getting to be a long list, and it contained some pretty important names. In time, he thought, Aimee would probably seem like a footnote, but just now her absence felt bigger than that, like maybe she deserved a whole page to herself.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Absence, Let Go, Letting Go, Memory, Rapture
“A good girlfriend is a good listener, she reminded herself. But she was just pretending, and she knew it. In her former life, Doug used to sit across this very table and try her patience in a similar way, with long-winded soliloquies about whatever deal he happened to be working on at the moment, filling her in on the arcane legal and financial details of the transaction , thinking out loud about the various stumbling blocks that might arise, and what he might do to overcome them. But no matter how bored she was, she always understood that Doug's work mattered to her on a personal level, that it would have consequences for their family, and that she needed to pay attention. As much as she appreciated Kevin's company, she couldn't quite convince herself that she needed to care about the intricacies of the building code or a deadline extension for pet licenses.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Idle Talk, Listening, Talk Talk
“Laurie couldn't sleep. It was her third night at the Outpost, and the transition wasn't going as smoothly as she'd hoped. Part of it was the strangeness, after twenty-three years of marriage and nine months of communal living, of once again having a room of her own. She just wasn't accustomed to solitude anymore, the way that lying alone on a comfortable mattress could feel like tumbling endlessly through outer space.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Leaving, Solitude
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