Quotes About Devotion

No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.

Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore.

Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone, and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder in your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces, all at once?" "Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

He had never been one to care about appearances or heroics or receiving accolades for his deeds. I daresay keeping Phèdre in one piece had kept him too busy; and then later, protecting me, too.

It takes courage to love.

I turned in his arms, and whispered, "Joscelin Verreuil, I would die without you." "Probably." He smiled again. "Of melodrama, if naught else.

Mayhap Bao was right, and I did fall in love as easily as other people fall out of a boat; but I loved in earnest.

Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.

Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?

It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason.

There is a madness in love.

As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.

I had Joscelin, my Perfect Companion, the compass by which I fixed my heart. No one could ask more.

In the end, I didn't know why I loved her to the point of distraction. I knew only that I did.

Remember, the most important thing in the world is to have a man who loves you.

he's only got to look at me to see he comes first. First and last and all the stages in between. I

You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.

Don't you know you take my heart with you everywhere you go?

She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

But I must tell you that... he paused and his voice filled with infinite gentleness and tenderness. You are so very precious to me, he whispered against her neck. You are my heart as it moves within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.

shrine of Loreto.

then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he