Quotes About Devotion

Taylor worked a hand between them and stroked his thumb over the erect little nub of her clit. Lifting his head, he stared at her, watched as a harsh, broken sob fell from her lips. Her nails bit into his skin as she started to come and he gritted his teeth, holding back until he saw her going over. Then, and only then, did he bury his face in her neck and start to move again, hard, fast. He muttered her name, blind to everything but her…completely and utterly lost in her.

I think I fell in love with you before I even knew you, before I even saw you," he whispered, kissing her neck. "I feel like I've loved you my whole life, and I've just been waiting to find you.

Even after she'd given the last bit of what she had for him.

That he had loved [her] more, and far more, than he had cared for anyone else gave her stature[.]

She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words.

You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

Jimmy: When you die, I die Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

Believe me, I know how to respect a man of learning, a man who sits and studies Torah, despite the fact that he doesn't so much as put his finger into cold water. You think he's lazy? He'd do anything, poor fellow—but there's nothing to do. So he sits and studies. Let him keep studying.

To my dear, learned, & illustrious husband Menakhem-Mendl, may your light shine!

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied.

A thousand times more crimes were commited in the name of love, than in the name of hate.

There should be a thirteenth commandment: Thou shall not abandon those who love you.

I would have killed you if you had died.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.

Music is love in search of a word.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion — in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. it has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

I think of the story of Hachik? the Akita, who used to go to Tokyo's Shibuya Station to meet the train that brought his master home from work every day—until one day the man died suddenly and Hachik? waited in vain. But the next day, and every day after that, for nearly ten years, the dog appeared at the station to meet the train at the usual hour.

Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me.

Having your dog is like having a part of you here.

Kristin. You cannot settle for anything less than the love that is between God and the soul.

Saint Olav turned her eyes toward Christ on the cross—see, Kristin: God's love.

Love had always been behind her toil with earthly matters. Erlend had never given her much thanks for that; it was not the way he wanted to be loved. But she couldn't help it; it was her nature to love with great toil and care.

He loved the holy mass and prayers spoken in Latin, and he regarded the church as the place where he felt the most joy.