111 Quotes by Rumaan Alam

One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of emails assessing the job itself.

What a marvel, to have a body, a thing that contained you. Vacation was for being returned to your body.

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.

His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.

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.

Well, the sun was shining.

They were too young to appreciate the luck and chance that goes into making a person.

The television has done something to us. To human beings. We can see so much, but maybe we weren’t made to see this much. Maybe it’s too much.

She likes the frisson of improvisation. Fun cannot be scheduled. Fun simply occurs.