Quotes About Devotion

He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice.

Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I love you heart and soul.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart

you are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.

There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.

He greeted Anne with a roar of joy, swept her up and kissed her. You would think he had never been Sir Loyal Heart to his Queen Katherine. You would think it had been his worst enemy who had died and not a woman who had loved him faithfully for twenty-seven years and died with a blessing for him on her lips.

This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him. Go then, he said. Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive.

He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.

Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.

And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: "Bed, Wife.

I don't ask for more than a smile and to be in your prayers. I love from afar.

I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.

I have to tell you, you have to know: I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman; and now, before I leave you, I want to tell you that I love you, I love you—

I am happy; I am in his arms, my face crushed against his padded jacket, his arms around me as tight as a bear, so that I cannot breathe. When I look up into his beloved weary face, he kisses me so hard that I close my eyes and think myself a besotted girl again. I catch a breath, and he kisses me some more.

If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.

He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.

Where have I offended you? I take God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble and obedient wife. These twenty years and more I have been your true wife, and by me you have had many children though it pleased God to call them out of this world. And when you had me at the first I was a true maid, without touch of man—" Henry

And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

It's not a question of wanting to be queen; it's not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don't care! I don't care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that's all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me.

comes with me everywhere. I bend down and quietly put her out of the room. She whines and

A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best.

He did not care, he was besotted with his pregnant queen, he dropped like a boy to kneel beside her, to put his hands on her great round belly and look up into her face.