Come with Me Quotes

“The City of Palo Alto had to commit to building affordable homes. Stanford University with its $21.4 billion endowment, its eight thousand acres, 60 percent of it open even now, needed to model good citizenship with a little mixed-income lodging for both employees and the greater community. The state had to kick in. The tech industry was obscenely wealthy. (He’d recently read that Bill Gates’s $90 billion fortune was .5 percent of the U.S. GDP.) There was still a federal government out there, no matter how frozen and hobbled by idiocy and partisanship and downright meanness; someone somewhere had to care.”
― Helen Schulman, Come with Me

“He had drive and hunger somewhere, like a phantom limb, agitating faintly away in his gut. He’d been an ambitious young man, he’d gotten drunk just looking at the constantly changing face of the churning, radiant world.”
― Helen Schulman, Come with Me