Entitlement

by Rumaan Alam

“You’ll never get over this, Asher. This is who you are now. Bereavement mellows. It never vanishes. It’s not an absence or a lack even. It’s more present than that. It’s a change. That’s life’s nature. It changes.”

The thing that makes life interesting is that it ends. The thing that makes love worthwhile is that it’s all we’ve got.”