Quotes About Devotion

crows were more intelligent than most men, and more loyal, and that you could not choose them, they must choose you, they must come to you and once they did they would never leave you, at least not of their own accord.

I had always done as he asked, not because I was bound to do so by duty but because I saw the depth of who he was and how he himself suffered.

Love someone and they're yours forever

Ben would have done anything for you." "I thought that meant he was an idiot." "No," Maravelle says. "It means you're an idiot.

You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you'd have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.

Maria recalled the women who had crossed Devotion Field driven by love they couldn't renounce, even when it had ruined them. And then one night she knew the answer to her own question. This wasn't love. Maria Owens turned eighteen during her first winter in the second Essex County, the coldest winter in more than forty years.

She thought I was impossible, but she loved me anyway, which is the best sort of love there is.

There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires.

Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.

How Much Do I Love You? I love you more than pancakes, more than ice cream, more than pickles, more than my life. I love you more than dogs or cats or diamonds or gold, more than anyone else in the world. I loved brushing your hair every night and walking you to school. I told you every story you knew.

You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you'd have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.

Narcissistic cathexis of the child by the mother does not exclude emotional devotion. On the contrary, she loves the child as her self-object, excessively, though not in the manner that he needs, and always on the condition that he presents his false self. This is no obstacle to the development of intellectual abilities, but it is one to the unfolding of an authentic emotional life.

Doing this was like wading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement that you were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion— calm above the surface of your life, surviving, though the pain of the cold continued to wash into your body.

something make a man crawl over glass and fire to get to again after he get to it once

Since their first kiss in our kitchen two weeks after my death, I had known that he was - as my sister and I had giggled with our Barbies or while watching Bobby Sherman on TV - her one and only. Samuel had pressed himself into her need and the cement between the two of them had begun to set immediately. They had gone to Temple together, side by side. He had hated it and she had pushed him through. She had loved it and this had allowed him to survive.

Everything want to be loved.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.

Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I'm a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do, I love you.

I wash her body, it feels like I'm praying. My hands tremble and my breath short.

To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.

What happened to the man I love?'... 'Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. Us had the kind of love couldn't be improve. That's what I thought.

Lord, I wants to go so bad. Not to dance. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her