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• Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Might, Lasts

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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• If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

  Alice Hoffman

  Attention, World, Understood

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

  Golda Meir

  Men, Israel, Doubt

  "Israel’s Iron Lady Unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday" by Judd Yadid, www.haaretz.com. May 03, 2015.

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• I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Baby, Talking, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Grace, Healthy

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.786, Penguin

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• With Blue here, he was beginning to feel as if possibly he'd overdone it with the helicopter. He wondered if it would make Blue feel better or worse to know that it was Helen's helicopter, that he hadn't paid anything today for the use of it. Probably worse. Remembering his vow to at least do no harm with his words, he kept his mouth shut.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Feel Better, Blue, Use

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.159, Scholastic Inc.

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• There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

  Sylvia Day

  Men, Attention, Alive

  Sylvia Day (2011). “A Dark Kiss of Rapture: A Renegade Angels Novella”, p.23, Sylvia Day, LLC

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• A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Heart, Two, People

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• Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

  Libba Bray

  Coffee, Book, Boys

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• The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Want, Kind

  "Work, Learning And Freedom". Interview with Michael Kasenbacher, www.newleftproject.org. December 24, 2012.

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• I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

  Robert Jordan

  Giving, Debt, Paid In Full

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.899, Macmillan

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• Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-­expenses-paid visit to your local police station.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Winning, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.2, Del Rey

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• Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Heart, Israel, Skins

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

  Sylvia Day

  Gideon, Attention

  Sylvia Day (2016). “Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dark, Volume

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We had just paid the check when Dimitri's cell phone rang. "Hello?" he answered. And like that, his face transformed. That fierceness I so associated with him softened, and he practically glowed. "No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza." Whatever the response on the other end was, it made him smile.

  Richelle Mead

  Phones, Cells, Roza

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.34, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.

  Darynda Jones

  House, Alive, Towns

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.315, Macmillan

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• Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!

  J. K. Rowling

  Zero, Long, Balance

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• Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love You, Suffering, Poor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.24, A&C Black

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• If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Care, Want

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• She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mistake, People, Arbitrary

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• The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

  Richard Cantillon

  Time, Crafts, Being The Best

  1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.

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• I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Giving

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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