Quotes About Devotion

That's what love does right? Shows up and sticks around, even for the hard stuff. Keeps its promises~ Sam to Pete (pg 322)

You show up. You wait. You give. You sacrifice. You love anyway.

Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type. The kind of men who didn't care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead. The kind of men who died for what they believed in. The kind of men who would break her heart.

Papa said marriage is not kept by affection but by a pledge. Affection does not beget the pledge; the pledge begets the affection. When you share a life and a home and a bed with someone, you become soul mates as surely as cream and effort produce butter....And so I began to imagine my life with James Luddy. I imagined being butter.

With all great loves there is first a great struggle

Only one way out now. I love you, Taryn. I'm coming.

I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.

Quoting Althea Warren, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks, or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

As she said in a speech to a library association in 1935, librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone.

I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone.

A real selfish love like yours old pal Is something I shall never know again And I must always be a better man Because you loved me greatly, Rin Tin Tin.

librarians should "read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they'd rather do it than anything else in the world.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Slowly he raised his gaze to meet hers. "you mean...." "I mean i love you too Alex." Maggie sighed.

I want full-on emotional, sexual, spiritual passion—not the torments of fights and jealousies, but the power of engaging deeply, from the bottom of my heart, with my lover's heart, with lots of ebb and flow in both passion and friendship, periods of great agreement and great distance, but always coming back to each other, to self, to commitment, together.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

After a few months, I was no longer wildly romantic about him. But he gave me a warm place to park my heart while I went about my work.

An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.

Hasel gustosamente lee su Biblia, lleno de celo como vimos todos, Come verdura fresca y papas hervidas, zanahorias y pepinos crudos. Les predica a todos la buena palabra de la temperancia, no come carne, no fuma, no bebe: así debería ser un cristiano".