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Quotes About Devotion

Either 100 percent commitment, totally unwavering devotion, or nothing at all.
~ Dean Karnazes
Because there is no power on earth that could make me abandon our friendship. There is no deed you could confess so dark that it would make me forsake you. You said of us once that we were quicksilver and the rest of the world mud. We are alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other would be to spit in the face of whatever deity has seen fit to bring us together. We are the same, and to leave you would be to leave myself.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world...
~ Deanna Raybourn
I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Stoker's smile was slow and terrible. 'You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?' He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. 'You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her.' He stepped to the edge of the rock. 'I love her enough to die for her.' And without another word, he disappeared over the edge of the rock and into the blackness of the sea.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I loved you first and I will love you last
~ Deanna Raybourn
I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I went to stand next to him, and he gave me his hand, warm and strong. "I am sorry I kept you waiting," I murmured. "I have waited for you the whole of my life," he replied softly. "What is another minute more?
~ Deanna Raybourn
Even now you do not know what to make of me and I will not own what I am. I want you to think of me when you eave this place and wonder whether I am merely a mortal or something beyond. A better man would release you and want you to love another. I am no better man. I am selfish and flawed and I have nothing to offer you that is not broken or imperfect including myself, and so I offer you nothing but I love you until the day I die and no man will love you more.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You do not yet know what it means to love someone more than yourself. I have no pride left, no delicacy. I cannot afford it. So I will tell you the truth: I wanted his happiness above all things.
~ Deanna Raybourn
No," he said slowly. "I am better than a husband. I am your friend.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Perhaps I have simply decided that if such misadventures are the price I must pay to have you in my life, I am content to pay them.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?" He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. "You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her." He stepped to the edge of the rock. "I love her enough to die for her.
~ Deanna Raybourn
You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Veronica Speedwell, I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He would rather dance at the end of a hangman's noose than betray you? That speaks to a connection more intimate than mere friendship,
~ Deanna Raybourn
He went on. "You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
~ Deb Caletti