Quotes About Devotion

No me importa nada más, le juro. Me alcanza saberla conmigo en este entuerto. Sabiendo eso, me aguanto el silencio y la distancia y los años y lo que venga. Eso es todo, Ofelia. Disculpe la osadía de escribirle esta carta. Y disculpe la osadía de decirle, en cinco letras imperdonables: la amo.

Lo que tiene que decirle, lo que necesita decirle, y lo que al mismo tiempo le horroriza que sepa, es que él la quiere con él, para siempre, en todos lados y a todas horas o a casi todas, porque ha naufragado en tal estado de adoración que no entiende la vida sin ella

Y si el precio de serlo es que jamás nadie lo sepa, que sea. Que sea ese el precio. Que todo esto permanezca en el más absoluto silencio. Que nadie sepa, nunca, ni ahora mientras caminamos en esta procesión callada, ni dentro de muchos años cuando sea una viejita memoriosa, Manuel, querido mío, lo mucho que te amé.

Pero nada. Si me querés, quedate. Bancate lo que te pasa. Bancátelo todo. Bancátelo por mí. Cuando yo crezca hacé lo que quieras. Pero ahora quedate. Soy chica. Te necesito. Aunque no encuentres otro motivo para quedarte, acá estoy yo, encontrame a mí como motivo. Y si no soy suficiente motivo, andate bien a la mierda.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

I do love you. I'd be one miserable and lonesome man without you around.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

Go thou my incense upward from this hearth And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

I gave her everything I could give," He winces as if there's a nerve which gets trapped in his heart whenever it pulls in a certain direction.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and… you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.

In melody divine, My heart it beats to rapturous love, I long to call you mine.

My book and heartMust never part.

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, A church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for, He said one that would make me his wife.

To love, cherish, and to obey.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.

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