There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.


The Likeness: A Novel (ed. Penguin, 2008) - ISBN: 9781440637537

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There's a Spanish proverb, he said, that's always fascinated me. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.' I don't believe in God, Daniel said,...

There's a Spanish proverb, he said, that's always fascinated me. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.' I don't believe in God, Daniel said,...

There's a Spanish proverb, he said, that's always fascinated me. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.' I don't believe in God, Daniel said,...

There's a Spanish proverb, he said, that's always fascinated me. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.' I don't believe in God, Daniel said,...