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Quotes About Devotion

Stand up!—stand up for Jesus!
~ George Duffield
One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8
~ George E. Vaillant
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories ...
~ George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? to strengthen each otherto be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
~ George Eliot
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
~ George Eliot
I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed it, wrote it, and subscribed it, now my heart is full of you, my head raves of you and my hand writes to you but all in vain.
~ George Farquhar
Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.
~ Ilona Andrews
Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.
~ Ilona Andrews
He puts himself between evil creatures and small children. He protects us. He is my monster, Commander. Should any rough men come here and try to take what is ours, he will remind them of that.
~ Ilona Andrews
That's what marriage was, at the core—the exclusive right to spend as much time with someone you loved as they were willing to give.
~ Ilona Andrews
If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things, and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.
~ Ilona Andrews
A fully human Derek stood right in front of me. His eyes were aglow, and he looked at me as if I were the thing he wanted most in the entire world.
~ Ilona Andrews
What about the Pack?" His upper lip trembled, betraying the edge of his teeth. "Fuck the Pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing." Curran reached over and covered my fingers with his hand. "I'm serious. Say the word right now and we're gone.
~ Ilona Andrews
He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love—which probably wasn't possible, given that he was likely a psychopath—his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about.
~ Ilona Andrews
I don't want to play anymore … I love you.
~ Ilona Andrews
She and I are immune. She is our sister. We already love her as much as we can.
~ Ilona Andrews
I know William," Kaldar said. "He's married to my cousin, Cerise, who is more like my baby sister. If her life and happiness were at stake, William would burn the world just to see her smile. Jack is a changeling like William. He would move the earth and the moon to protect his brother. "So
~ Ilona Andrews
You know what? No: if he ever fell in love, it wouldn't be great romantic devotion. It would be an exercise in frustration and lust, and at the end of it his significant other would strangle him.
~ Ilona Andrews
You would be William, then," she said. He nodded. "Are you here for yourself or for Casshorn?" "For Jack," he said. "I see." She didn't, but that seemed like the right thing to say.
~ Ilona Andrews
I was thinking, we might just stay here," Rose said. "We can wait for you." " 'Dear Declan, where is your bride?' 'Oh, I left her outside, Your Grace.' " Declan shook his head. "I don't think so.
~ Ilona Andrews
In this life each of us must decide three things for ourselves: who to worship, who to marry, and who to serve.
~ Ilona Andrews
I loved that he called me on my bullshit. I laughed at his jokes and I loved that he laughed at mine. I loved that no matter where I was he would come for me. That he would always be there, helping me cut my way through the mess that was life.
~ Ilona Andrews
Blood of my blood they might not be, but heart of my heart they will be.
~ Ilona Andrews
With you, I breathe.
~ Ilona Andrews