Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah, " he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be. Richard Adams
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"Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be." This quote really gives me the insight about how much patience people have when it comes to their loved ones.

People are willing to bleed themselves out for their loved ones because they know that they are worth more than anything else in this world. The idea of "what Is" in this quote really speaks about the fact that there are no deals. There are only deals that have already been made once before.

If you want something, you have to fight for it until you get it. If you don't, then someone else will take the deal that was just made.

Source: Watership Down

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