getting what you deserve Quotes

″Clay, your reputation was deserved. But mine… mine was not. And there I was with you. Adding to my reputation.”

“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?”

“Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”

″“What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything...” “I ain’t pretending to be deserving. I’m undeserving.”

“When she got to be thirty and was still single, we were ... vindicated.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.”