Doing Favors Quotes

“Let us hope that no one comes to us and says 'Please', or 'Listen' -- the words that always precede all or almost all requests: 'Listen, do you know?', 'Listen, could you tell me?, 'Listen, have you got?, 'Listen, I wanted to ask you: for a recommendation, a piece of information, an opinion, a hand, some money, a favourable word, a consolation, a kindness, to keep this secret for me or to change for my sake and be someone else, or to betray and to lie or to keep silent for me and save me.”
― Javier Marías, Dance and Dream