Entitlement Quotes

“There are men with this much money and it’s not that they control the world. They’ve defeated it. They’ve left it. They live somewhere above the rest of us and we spend our days not knowing this because if we did we would all lose our minds.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“The thing that makes life interesting is that it ends. The thing that makes love worthwhile is that it’s all we’ve got.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“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.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“She hated Alissa, her entitlement, her self-satisfaction, her familiarity with a man she’d only just met.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“Important work is curing cancer. It’s feeding the hungry. It’s immigration law. Nuclear nonproliferation. This is just an elaborate scam by one man to dodge the estate tax. How can you not see that?”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“I don’t know.” Brooke stopped eating. “It makes you feel. That’s what art does. It reminds you that you feel, or asks you what it is you feel. The answer doesn’t even matter. It’s the question.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“It’s the only thing to talk about,” Brooke said. “It’s the whole world. Kim’s money means that her every need, her every want—a new career, maybe—is hers. We all have things we need. I’m trying to succeed at work. And I’m trying to buy an apartment myself, just so you know. I’ve got a lot going on.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“The megarich. They wreak havoc on the environment and refuse to pay fair taxes, then they get to decide what’s a worthy cause, bless the rest of us with some of their leftover money.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“We wish that, of the people we truly love, to see them as they were before knew them.”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

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


[Asher Jaffee]”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“...what was parenthood but the polishing of another into something like a mirror?

[Maggie Orr]”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement

“...what was parenthood but the polishing of another into something like a mirror?

[Maggie Ott]”
― Rumaan Alam, Entitlement