Quotes About Commitment

knew that from now on she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.

Tell me you won't walk away again and I'll call the whole thing off.

To love someone so complicated you had to be committed to a single emotion—the way you loved him—no matter what. In that way, it was indeed simple.

Never agree to take a puppy for a week, Elinor knew that now. A week was all the time it took to be won over completely, despite the messes on the carpets and the shedding, the chewed slippers and shredded books.

If you're disconnected from someone for a long enough time, does blood still commit you to one another? Does history, or fate?

Will her husband love her?" "Would you want love you had to buy?" Isabelle asked.

but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

The responsibility of loving someone is too much for anyone to take, which is why she's done her best to avoid it.

Remember one thing," Hannah told Maria. "Always love someone who will love you back.

name was Tom Smith and he had performed so many marriages he could recite the service in his sleep. Sometimes he did and his wife would lie in bed and listen to him, the whole service through, comforted that someone could know the words of love by heart.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running.

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.

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.

Should is what you don't want to do, but do anyway. That isn't me.

When a draft looks terrible, I don't try to convince myself that it's actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it's my job to work on it whether it's good or not.

Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired

That night when he came to claim her, he stood on the short lawn before her house, his knees bent, his fists driven into his thighs, and bellowed her name with such passion that even the friends who surrounded him, who had come to support him, to drag her from the house, to murder her family if they had to

I had once heard somebody say, at a party, that one of the nice things about marriage was that you could have real affairs – an affair before marriage could always turn out to be nothing but courtship.

His philosophy of life had changed as he got older—he believed now in marriage, constancy, and no birth control.

This is his burden- it never occurs to him to call it love.