# Quote — Tim Powers, Last Call

> It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.

- Author: [Tim Powers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers.md)
- Book: [Last Call](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/last-call.md)
- Page: 77
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#Last_Call_(1992)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/last-call/it-wasnt-fair

## More from this book

> Gambling was the place where statistics and profound human consequences met most nakedly, after all, and cards, even more than dice or the numbers on a roulette wheel, seemed able to define and perhaps even dictate a player’s...luck.

p. 79 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/last-call/gambling-was-the.md)

> He thought about crossing his fingers, but clasped her hand instead.

p. 535 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/last-call/he-thought-about.md)

> I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?

p. 374 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/last-call/im-really-willing.md)