Quote by Marshall Thornton

“It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“You just cost him something he didn't want to lose.”

— Nora Sakavic

“I was afraid that if I did anything at all without bartering for at least some small thing in return, he might think I…

— Margaux Fragoso

“He didn't make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That's how repentance…

— Brent Weeks

“like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.”

— Richard K. Morgan

“He remembered what the old man had said about offering something you didn’t even have yet.”

— Paulo Coelho

“How could you escape a past that was so determined to make you pay?”

— Andrew Davidson

“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.”

— Markus Zusak

“He could not help a certain resentment that a conscience seemed to be so very expensive, and yet had no substantial form which one…

— Naomi Novik

“Has to pay for his company. If you take my meaning.”

— Amy Timberlake

“Don't ask to borrow unless you intend to repay them.”

— Mark Romagna