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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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William Faulkner
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Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You think you’re unlovable, but I think I’ve never known how to love until knowing you.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend)
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And to think you consider yourself hard to love.” I kiss her temple. “Loving you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer. Grow from your experiences, don't let them smother the light out of you.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
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Roger Waters
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When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.
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Paul Auster (The Book of Illusions)
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Hello, little honey bees. You glorious, sharp-edged, perfection seekers. You’ve been working so hard, holding everything together; come sit down with me for a while and take a load off.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I'm the older sister, I'm not scared of anything.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)
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Now I never give him pieces of myself. I have zero hope for us. It’s a weird thing to let yourself grieve your parent who is still living, but I’ve done it—do it regularly, actually.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You think you're unlovable. But I think I've never known how to love, until knowing you.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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As all good and unbearable perfectionists know, if you want something done right, you mostly have to do it yourself.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Emily: My life is over. O.E.V.E.R.
Jack: I'm glad you also know the super-secret way to spell 'over'.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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But knowing you were inside tonight and needed me, it got me through the doors.” He pauses. “You are not alone, Emily. I would walk through my worst memories to get to you every single time.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
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Michael Greenberg (Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life)
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I'll be so careful with you, Emily.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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No one needs me. And when they don’t need me, they don’t come around anymore either because I am a utility sponge. I am useful. And if I’m no use to someone anymore, they throw me under the sink.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
Emily…you take on too much—and you hold yourself to this impossible standard of living that no one can survive on. And to be quite honest, it’s nice to see that you struggle just like the rest of us. That you need me occasionally just like I need you. So stop letting your pride and your perfectionism get in the way,
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
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James Jeffrey Roche
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It’s a weird thing to let yourself grieve your parent who is still living, but I’ve done it—do it regularly, actually.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
many teachers get into the career because of our own brokenness. We become the kind of teachers we needed.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I can't get her off my mind. I want to spend every second of the day with her. I want to make up for every day of every year I spent fighting with her instead of loving her. Lately, it's been seeming like she feels the same way too.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: You earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or, you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money. “A peaceful warrior has the insight and discipline to choose the simple way — to know the difference between needs and wants. We have few basic needs but endless wants. Full attention to every moment is my pleasure. Attention costs no money; your only investment is training. That’s another advantage of being a warrior, Dan — it’s cheaper! The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” I
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Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives)
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find that teachers are often the most compassionate people on the planet. Yes, we may enjoy leading or organizing or imparting knowledge, but at the heart of it, many teachers get into the career because of our own brokenness. We become the kind of teachers we needed.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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because even if everything around me is swirling into chaos, at least I have this: My house. My routine. My cat.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Because the fact is, it takes so much emotional energy to be a teacher. And an outrageous amount to be a good one.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Emily: You've seen a woman's body. Mine is no different.
He pauses, a thick crease forming between his brows.
Jack: Emily, you are the difference. I'm realizing that.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
It was basically a desperate attempt to distract myself from that hurt clawing its way through my heart.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Good. Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.” She
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You are not alone, Emily. I would walk through my worst memories to get to you every single time.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You don't owe any man anything-- and if he doesn't know from the first second of talking to you that he's the luckiest son of a bitch in the world for getting any attention from you at all, he deserves to be run over with a truck.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
when I told you I care for you, I mean it. It’s not that I care for some aspects of you, not that I care for you when you’re in a good mood…I care for you always. I want you, always. The good, the bad, and the in-between. I. Want. You. Sharp edges, hot tempered, fiercely protective, gooey heart…all of it. All of you. But I’m not going to rush you again or push you into anything you’re not ready for either. In the end, if all you want is friendship, I’ll take it.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.
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Michael Greenberg (Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life)
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But if you scream like a little baby on the back of this bike, I’ll make fun of you for eternity.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I want to hug each other when we're sad and help each other find the bright side of things when all we see is the dark.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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And when she found me watching, she told me to find someone someday who will hug me when I’m sad and then help me look on the bright side of things when all I can see is the dark.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Suddenly I wonder if this will be me one day: living in a home that I’m afraid to change, afraid to grow in because I’m so scared of leaning into the pain of change.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
You are not alone, Emily. I would walk through my worst memories to get to you every single time.
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Sarah Adams (When in Rome Series, 3 Books Set, When in Rome, Practice Makes Perfect, Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams)
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find someone someday who will hug me when I’m sad and then help me look on the bright side of things when all I can see is the dark.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they’re willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you’ll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn’t yours doesn’t matter.
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Tiffany FitzHenry
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The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob—all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.
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Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend)
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How to get money: earn it, steal it, borrow it, beg for it, or inherit it. So, who do I have to kill to get rich?
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Jarod Kintz (99 Cents For Some Nonsense)
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hollow feeling Millie had endured to some extent her whole life was gradually expanding. She felt like emptiness was slowly pulling her under,
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Susie Tate (Limits (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #2))
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glared over at Libby in the kitchen. “The door was open.” Libby rolled her eyes. “Yes, I got one of your bossy little texts; I knew you were on your way over, so I left it ajar. You’re lucky I didn’t lock my new deadbolt.
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
“
He,” the little girl said, pointing in Jamie’s face and scrunching her nose, “stepped on Alan with his humongous feet.” Libby’s gaze dropped down to a now loosely held Alan, then moved up to Jamie’s face, and if anything she grew even paler. “She kicked me,” was all Jamie could think to say as he straightened up.
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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You never told me you had a daughter.” “Well, I did try a couple of times, but you didn’t–” “I cut you off.” Jamie ran his fingers through his hair, his mind going over the past two weeks and both of the times she had tried to explain, only to have him close the conversation down. Pav’s words came back to haunt him as he took in the two females huddled in a soggy-looking mess on the chair: Everyone’s fighting their own unique war, man.
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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Mum,” she snapped, “I’ve got to go.” “Oh! Of course, go, go. Sweets, I’m not sure that your pancakes are the best choice to make him for breakfast. Better maybe to ease him into your cooking skills. Some toast might be–
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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Rosie burrowed further into Beauty’s fur, not saying a word. (To be honest Libby was a little relieved; Shy Rosie was better than Kicking Random People in the Shins Rosie.)
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
“
So the past week has been about pity has it?” he asked her, and she blinked. “Uh …” “I felt sorry for you and Rosie, so I invited your whole family to stay at my house. Allowed your mother to traumatise my dog. Have a family of woodlice living in one of my houseplants, because I felt bad?” “Uh… yes?
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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I don’t care about any of this shit,” he muttered against her apple shampoo-smelling hair. “All I care about is right here in my arms and outside attempting to play catch with a morbidly obese dog.
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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My blood pressure is fine, you freak,” she muttered. “Well, your ankles were really puffy last night and–” “They’re just fat,” she cut him off hotly, drawing a few curious stares from the nurses behind the desk. She looked up at the ceiling and contrived to lower her voice. “They’re just fat because I’m fat, because I’m carrying your big fat baby. Now stop fussing.
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Susie Tate (Beg, Borrow or Steal (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #1))
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Fanny’s Plan. Fanny was Hazel’s mother. Her plan was to use whatever methods she could to give the younger generation the means to start businesses and schooling, which in turn would guarantee they and their children would never face the challenges Fanny and her children faced growing up. And she didn’t care if she had to beg, borrow, or steal to accomplish that. Hazel marrying into the family of that rich Creole had been part of that plan. All the money made off the swindling, the gambling, and the other enterprises are ensuring the young have a future.
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Beverly Jenkins (To Catch a Raven (Women Who Dare, #3))
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If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole. -RVM
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R.V.M.
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If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.
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R.V.M.
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If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.-RVM
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R.V.M.
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few days, or even weeks.” Weeks. “And now we beg, borrow or steal another vehicle and slip out of town?” “Bingo.” Ray flipped the glove compartment open and dug around inside, extracting a flashlight, some maps and a first aid kit. “Though borrowing is out. We don’t wanna lead men
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Norah Wilson (Saving Grace (Serve and Protect, #2))
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If you think your own life hard, and would like to leave it for a short hour I recommend you to beg, borrow or steal this tale, and read and see how the penguins live. It is all quite true.
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913)
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Someone wants your body. /
What's the deal? / Beg, borrow, buy or steal? / Gutter or pedestal? / That's how it is with bodies / that someone wants. /
What's it worth to you? / A rose, a diamond, / a cool million, a joke, a drink? /The fiction that this one likes you?
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Margaret Atwood (Dearly)
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Swan, where you’re concerned, we’ll beg, borrow, steal, or cheat.
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Heather Long (Dangerous Renegade (82 Street Vandals, #6))
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Esther Driscoll is an investment banker at a top firm and had to beg, borrow, and steal to get the time off. She’s much more serious than the rest of us.
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Sian Gilbert (She Started It)
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Banks don’t care if you borrow, beg or steal so long as you meet their excruciating payment schedule else your title to your collateral is forfeited.
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Vincent Okay Nwachukwu (Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1)
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Giving your time is the costliest gift; rest everything you can beg, borrow, or steal.
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Sarvesh Jain
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I have every intention of spending the night in her bed. I'll beg, borrow, and steal to get between those sheets. Or more accurately, I'll bluff, intimidate, and manipulate.
Old habits die hard.
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Eden Summers (Hunter (Hunting Her, #1))
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Life is ten per cent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. Don’t waste yours looking back for what you’ve lost. Move on. Life isn’t meant to be lived backwards.
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Susie Tate (Anything But Easy (Beg, Borrow or Steal #3))
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You have no idea, do you? No idea what it's like to have no money, no way on God's earth to beg, borrow, or steal it. No idea what it's like to have no choice. No idea what it's like to sit there and stare at the bare walls and realize you've got to do something, and whatever you do, it's the wrong thing. You could take some money, propose to a girl, and break her heart later, and in so doing lose the love of the single most breathtaking woman you've ever met, the love of your lonely godforsaken life.
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Beatriz Williams (The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters, #1))
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I'll be so careful with you, Emily
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Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Someone has to hold it together. Someone had to lift the blanket on her bed and let her sisters climb in when the thunder would shake the house. Someone had to assure them that her bed was the safest place in the world.” Even when my own hands were trembling. “I was always promising them that I would never go anywhere, and my door would always be open for them.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
I’m the oldest daughter, I’m not scared of anything.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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You can do hard things, Emily. I’ve seen it. This is just a new kind of scary for you. It’s something you’re doing on your own, not for anyone else, but for you. And that can make a person feel extra exposed sometimes. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it to push through—because the reward in the end will be that much sweeter.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Good. Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
Good. Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.” She pats the back of my hand that’s holding hers. “Grow from your experiences, don’t let them smother the light out of you.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
“
I’ll be so careful with you, Emily,” he says, but I don’t have the heart to ask him if he means on the motorcycle or not.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Are you done hollering at me? Put your arms around me and lean in.” “Excuse me? I will not be leaning anywhere.” He laughs. “You think I’m going to drive on the road with your ass dangling off the back like that?
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Charles Dickens once wrote that the pauper’s alternatives were ‘of being starved by a gradual process in the house or by a quick one out of it’. Many preferred to beg, borrow, steal or simply to expire in some wretched room in the East End, as did 69-year-old William May, a former sailor. May was found dead and very emaciated in December 1842.
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Simon Fowler (The Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors)
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As a last-ditch effort I turned on an audiobook for a little background noise and the next thing I knew, I was sobbing on the floor and clutching a bottle of wine in my pajamas because the hero loved the heroine and I'm never going to be loved! No one wants me! I'm all alone in this life!
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I'd give everyone the me they wanted, needed, craved, and in exchange they'd care about me
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Except for one problem: I forgot that I'm high maintenance
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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What's that look for?" she asks. "Nothing." I kiss her cheek. Just deciding I'll do whatever is necessary to make sure I get to spend the rest of my life with this woman.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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my old friend Sunshine is rekindling our past love and kissing my exposed skin.
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Sarah Adams (When in Rome Series, 3 Books Set, When in Rome, Practice Makes Perfect, Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams)
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Eclipse"
"All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you loved
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow, or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
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Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
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What if your scene was all about her instead? What if the primary focus was her pleasure?” “That seems selfish,” I breathe out. The curve of his mouth is a potent drug. “I love when a woman is selfish.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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There’s just something about driving with my arm out the window on a long stretch of country road when the air is warm and the radio is blasting “Take It Easy” by the Eagles. It’s a unique kind of drug.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I push Amelia’s hair back from her ear so I know she can hear me. “I see you.
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Sarah Adams (When in Rome Series, 3 Books Set, When in Rome, Practice Makes Perfect, Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams)
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Whoever said time heals all wounds was a damn liar, because sometimes my heart hurts the worst from the memories that time has erased.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Life can be a little shit sometimes. But shit also makes great fertilizer.” She pats the back of my hand that’s holding hers. “Grow from your experiences, don’t let them smother the light out of you.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Why do I want to bite his elbow? I’m ninety percent sure that’s a weird thing to think.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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Now he really looks like he’s seen a ghost as he watches me snuggle her. Apparently he thought I went home every night and plugged myself into the wall to recharge.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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pauses. “You are not alone, Emily. I would walk through my worst memories to get to you every single time.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))
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I’ll always be right here where they left me.
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Sarah Adams (Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3))