Quotes About Devotion

I love you," I said, and this time I meant it. I could see the smile that went with the tone of his voice as he said, "I know, and I love you more." I smiled. "I love you most." Nathaniel's voice came on the phone as if Micah were holding it out to him: "I love you mostest.

If I hadn't already said yes, and loved him to pieces, I'd have told him not only no, but hell no.

I needed him to touch me, and let me know that he was still my Darkness, still my Doyle. He whispered into my hair, "Merry, Merry, Merry." I clung to him, wordless, and wept.

I would move all of hell to reach your side,you know that.

For you, and your so-firm faith, God bless. For my faith, blessed be.

Si Dieu est amour, il ne peut pas avoir créé le fléau qu'est Ma Dame, et si c'est le Diable qui s'en est chargé, il doit prier pour qu'elle ne meure pas réellement, sans quoi, je ne lui donnerais pas cent ans avant de diriger l'Enfer.

When people ask if love can last they always seem to mean romantic love, but there are all kinds of love, and they can all last.

Blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh, two minds with but one body, two souls wedded as one.

how when you love someone, you take that person into your body, your fingertips predicting their angles and curves; how you smell like them in the morning.

I think I'll always love him.

he just didn't want to share him with anyone. Ever. She wanted to be the person his eyes sought out in a crowded ballroom, the person he nudged when he had a really smashing joke he just had to tell, the first person he saw when he woke up in the morning, and the last person he spoke to when he went to bed at night. She wanted to be the one whose ear he whispered in at the opera, and the one perched next to him in his alarmingly tottery phaeton when he drove in the park at five.

myself in love with her,' he repeated

A hero is, in the words of Joseph Campbell, "someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."2

but what was devotion if not the habit and the piling up of small considerations?

Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket?

It means, 'You are my heart.'" I leaned forward, took her hands in mine, and whispered into her ear. "You have always been my heart, Country." Before I could kiss her, Isabel kissed me.

At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

Now I say two prayers a day. I say please in the morning and thank you every night.

One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.

Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.

In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.