There's Always a Cost

Nothing's free, someone always has to pay for it, even if it's not you

No such thing as a free lunch, my dad says. Yeah, someone always benefits, and someone always pays.

There's always a cost to something, even if it's time (which is probably our most expensive commodity) -- she typed on a meme site.

I wish it was free

There's really no such thing as something free, as everyone else said. In this world, there's always an exchange happening. Whether it be resources, time, power, or money, there's always something exchanged to obtain an object or condition of desire