Shell Game Quotes

“Life is not always sweet. Maybe most often it isn’t at all.”
― Rumaan Alam, Shell Game

“It’s a pity. Mark has everything Geoff lacks: a sense of purpose, a fragile happiness, money in the bank, an idea about who he is.”
― Rumaan Alam, Shell Game

“Mark is old enough now to admit that he hates such men and doesn’t care if it’s because he wishes he could be like them. But no. Mark worries. Mark doubts. Parenthood has made him more attuned to the world’s illogic, its betrayals. Geoff’s certainty and his lofty conversation grate. Mark murmurs an mm-hmm, trying to sound affirmative.”
― Rumaan Alam, Shell Game