Tom Perrotta Quotes

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

There is one relationship I was in that I learned a lot from. I learned a lot from the situation about myself and about relationships and about love, about how to relate to people, about forgiveness and the stuff that comes with being in a relationship.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!