Quotes About Promise

He's the author of dreams. And He's not a trickster. He doesn't give us a dream only to yank it away and laugh.

I will find you.

C'mon. Just a plate of food, and I promise, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just perch yourself in the corner, eat a plate of ribs, and glower." She winked. "You know, be your usual self.

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment.

Papa said marriage is not kept by affection but by a pledge. Affection does not beget the pledge; the pledge begets the affection. When you share a life and a home and a bed with someone, you become soul mates as surely as cream and effort produce butter....And so I began to imagine my life with James Luddy. I imagined being butter.

Dream of sweet tomorrows.

little thing, and what a promise it was making. I would in fact need the money, and he should

Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived.

All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library's simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.

I'll be here," I said. I shuddered, perhaps from a draft. "I know," he said. And he left.

You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won't tell anyone,' Ken said quietly. 'I promise.

I'll be careful." He looked at her. "I promise." "Call me if you need me." "Cosmo." He turned to look at her. "It does go both ways. I don't want to get a call from Tom Paoletti and Decker every Memorial Day.

If she'll have me, I'm going to marry her.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.

I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.

Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you." "I love you, too," said Luxa. After that there was nothing left to say.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.