Rich and Pretty Quotes

“His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“She likes the frisson of improvisation. Fun cannot be scheduled. Fun simply occurs.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“The ice tinkles prettily: There's no more inviting sound to her, it's sophistication, like a British accent or that call-and-response of high-heeled shoes on tile.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“Just reviewing this list, these to-dos and dones, her pace quickens; she feels lighter, she feels smarter, she feels in control, she feels alive.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“she can tell by their uniforms. It takes a million people to make life run the way it should run. Everyone has their own part to play in it.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“Huck is hardworking, sure, but it’s possible to view his rise as evidence of something else—luck; right time, right place; the indomitable spirit of a certain kind of white man. Arriving”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“You are either the sort of person who shapes society, or the sort of person whose life is affected by the shape of society.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“She has to return the bedsheets that she bought online because she buys everything online, but they feel terrible, and so she stuffed them back into the box they’d come in, borrowed the tape gun from one of the guys at the messenger center, and sealed it up, and the box is sitting under her desk, a persistent reminder that she’s out eighty-nine dollars until she can stomach standing in line at the post office with the local sociopaths.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty

“This body. This body Dan wanted to possess, and together they made a baby, asleep right now in the very next room. She tells herself that he's alive, that he's well, though some instinct in her tells her, every so often, that the baby is dead, that she needs to rush to his side. Either this will pass, or it never will. This is motherhood.”
― Rumaan Alam, Rich and Pretty