Quotes About Devotion

I've come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one's vows than the person they refer to.

We'll stay close and never part. I'll always love you cross my heart.

Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him. It's true he is at Esher with the cardinal, not at home at the Austin Friars. But, he thought, she'll know how to find me. She'll look for the cardinal, drawn through the space between worlds by incense and candlelight. Whereever the cardinal is, I will be.

The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

Gregory takes a bite of his pastry; Bella leans against his shin and adores him.

Without their regular feasts, the faithful are unstrung from the calendar, awash in a sea of days that are all the same.

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

Lo leerás. Después, charlaremos. Ahora solamente diré que, si tuviera que vivir mil vidas, querría vivirlas todas contigo.

I cling to that story in The Symposium, of the two halves coming together in "an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight," because that's all I want to know.

Feelings are connection. They surpass time, and find their way back to the people you love.

You Don't Die for your Friends, You live for them.

We'd rather die than abandon our comrade!!!

And I suppose that is what we want from our mothers: to maintain the world and, even if it is a lie, to proceed as though the world could be maintained. Whereas my father was obsessed with the past and the future, with returning to and remaking Libya, my mother was devoted to the present. For this reason, she was the truly radical force in my adolescence.

This surely is the way to be, I thought to myself, that one should take hold of those one loves most and simply look into their eyes for a long time, or perhaps, for eternity.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

Îmi amintesc din via?? doar iubirea mea pentru tine.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

whatever you love, that is your weakness