favors Quotes

“Powerful magic holds the knots in place. When released, Muriel can channel that magic into granting the favor.”

″‘Funny you guys should mention brownies,’ Seth said. ‘We need a favor.’ ‘Does the favor involve demons trashing our shed?’ Newel asked.

“He heard her speak and accepted her words with favor.”

“I want to be buried in Clara’s Orchard . . . Yes, that’s my favor to you. It’s the kind of job you was made for, that nobody else could do or even try . . .”

“One who becomes a prince through the favour of the people ought to keep them friendly, and this he can easily do seeing they only ask not to be oppressed by him.”

“It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.”

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

“The favour of the Empress was agreeable; And though the duty waxed a little hard, Young people at his time of life should be able To come off handsomely in that regard.”

“One monstrous diamond […] Bestowed upon him, as the public learned; And, to say truth, it had been fairly earned”

“All manner of people grew interested in Kino – people with things to sell and people with favors to ask.”

“Bulbo had carried a rose in his mouth all the time of the dismal ceremony. It was a fairy rose, and he was told by his mother that he ought never to part with it. So he had kept it between his teeth, even when he laid his poor head upon the block, hoping vaguely that some chance would turn up in his favour.”

“You don’t have to go along when others act unfairly or unreasonably. If you do go along, make it clear that you are doing them a favor—and that you expect something in return.”

“Have I done you a favor? thought Eduardo as he watched the baby turn its head toward the bustling nurses in their starched, white uniforms. Will you thank me for it later?”