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getting what you deserve Quotes

17 of the best book quotes about getting what you deserve
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“When she got to be thirty and was still single, we were ... vindicated.”
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“He’d discovered that he liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable... Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people.”
03
″“What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything...” “I ain’t pretending to be deserving. I’m undeserving.”
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“Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”
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“Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”
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“How, if I know all this, you may ask, could I hound him--shatter him again and again. dive him deeper and deeper into woe? I have no answer, except perhaps this: why should I not? Has he made any move to deserve my kindness?”
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“I get that you’re scared and that you’ve been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.”
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″Clay, your reputation was deserved. But mine… mine was not. And there I was with you. Adding to my reputation.”
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“In your relationship, never settle for less than what you deserve. At the same time, never think you deserve more out of a relationship than you are willing to put into it.”
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“Being sick or being healthy is not a matter of what God decides that we deserve. The better question is ‘If this has happened to me, what do I do now, and who is there to help me do it?‘”
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“People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”
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“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that’s ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
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“You never did anything right to anybody, Kiser, and so you deserve to die, but I’m not going to let you.”
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″‘That’s going to cost the lives of yet more thousands of ordinary civilians,’ said Mrs. Van Beusekom, with a sigh... ‘It’s their own fault,’ said the mayor. ‘They were the first to drop bombs on cities- Warsaw and Rotterdam. What goes around comes around.’ ‘No. It’s absolutely nothing to do with that little girl in Bremen who just got a piece of shrapnel in her leg,’ said Mrs. Van Beusekom. ‘War is a terrible thing.‘”
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″‘Ah, the mangy one!’ exclaimed the king of England. ‘The cruelest of all my enemies. He finally got what was coming to him. So you, valiant youth, are my godson! You shall marry my daughter and inherit my kingdom.‘”
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I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart!
Source: Chapter 94, Paragraph 79
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“He said to himself that he would not speak a word, even when his aunt came in, but would sit perfectly still till she asked who did the mischief; and then he would tell, and there would be nothing so good in the world as to see that pet model “catch it.”
Source: Chapter 3, Paragraph 20
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