Nine of the best book quotes about having no money
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“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it’s just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
″‘I felt sure there was twopence left,’ said the Doctor.
‘There was,’ said the owl. ‘But you spent it on a rattle for that badger’s baby when he was teething.‘”
“Da Souza himself felt unwanted, left behind in this ghost town of a place, among the empty houses, with a wife and three children to support on the proceeds from a store where nobody shopped any more.”
″‘Oh, I’ll work for nothing! Don’t you worry about the money side. I haven’t got any, either. Don’t think another thing about it. A bite of lunch and a free run of the books you’ve got in stock.‘”
“For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.”
“Father washed his hands and asked, ‘What’s for lunch today?’
Mother sighed. ‘Nothing!’ she replied. ‘We spent the lunch money at the amusement park.‘”