Quotes About Protection

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son.

Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.

It was one more time, Annemarie realized, when they protected one another by not telling. If Mr. Rosen knew, he might be frightened. If Mr. Rosen knew, he might be in danger. So he hadn't asked. And Peter hadn't explained.

Danes had on their windows; the entire city had to be completely darkened at night. In a nearby tree, a bird was singing; otherwise it was quiet. It was the last night of September. "Go, now, and get into your nightgowns. It will be a long night." Annemarie and Ellen got to their feet. Papa suddenly crossed the room and put his arms around them both. He kissed the top of each head: Annemarie's blond one, which reached to his shoulder, and Ellen's dark hair, the thick

And he had taken Gabriel, too.

It was one more time, Annemarie realized, when they protected one another by not telling.

We really have to protect people from wrong choices." "It's safer.

Arhys would have protected you from this choice, as a father would a beloved child. Arhys is wrong in this. I give you a woman's choice, here, at the last gasp. He looks to spare you pain this one night. I look to your nights for the next twenty years. There is neither right nor wrong in this, precisely. But the time to amend all choices runs out like Porifors's water.

I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. I should have remembered. Dear Captain.

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to.

Save me from that! To pour your life into sons for eighteen or twenty years, and then have the government take them away and waste them cleaning up after some failure of politics—no thanks.

Miles bowed, sitting; his floater bobbed slightly. "My horse would like you fine. He's extremely amiable, not to mention much too old and lazy to stampede anywhere. And I personally guarantee that with a Vorkosigan liveried armsman at your back, not the most benighted backcountry hick would offer you insult." Roic

Idrene said gently, "We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to." Her eyes fell on her own children.

If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.

Wear it around your neck," his mother told him anxiously. "I hear those cutpurses in the cities can have away with a purse off a man's belt and he never feels a tug.

Take my heart with you, baby girl. It follows you….always...

That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.

You're not the first Elite Ops agent to fall in love and you won't be the last, Ian informed him (Nik). I've watched four of you fall so far, and I'll be here to watch your commander go down fighting as well. Protecting your woman isn't your problem; it's protecting your heart.

She was still and silent against his chest, though he knew that indomitable will of hers was still firmly in place. She was the strongest person he had ever known in his life, and he wanted nothing more than to allow her to be weak. And that was the redneck in him, he knew it was. The man who wanted to protect his woman against any and all threats. To be a partner until danger rolled around. But he had chosen a woman who refused to hide from danger.

She was his. He would die for her. He would die without her.