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People liked to tell themselves they were unique, that everyone was special, and his or her value couldn’t be measured. Well,
Under the law, a person was valued at exactly how much money that person could earn. Anyone who hadn’t gone to an Ivy League school, pulled in at least six figures, or had a family business waiting for them was what PI lawyers called “an invisible client”—one who lived and breathed but didn’t officially exist.
wait too long for the right person, and you could end up alone.
It seemed like as most people grew older, the world made them cynical.
When you give up, it’s not yourself you hurt the worst. It’s everybody who cares about you.
It’s the people, Noah. That’s what matters. The people who love you and look up to you are your power, not the money.
Like Oscar Wilde said, the poor in America don’t think of themselves as a repressed lower class, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
We’re told that every person in the world has magic in them—the ability to pursue what they love and make something of themselves. That’s the freedom that’s been promised to us since the day we were born . . . but something’s not right.
It’s so subtle that most people don’t even see it. They don’t realize it’s happening . . . we’re not free anymore.
