Quotes About Commitment

Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.

Don't make promises you can't keep

Shh," he whispered. "You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?

Shhh." He put a finger to her lips. "Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had. I cannot survive losing you. (Winter Makepeace)

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.

Du musst einfach dranbleiben,' sagte er. 'Es sollte kein Zeitvertreib sein und keine Pflicht und nichts Ungewöhnliches. Es sollte das Normalste auf der Welt für dich sein.

Ha! Also für den Fall, dass du es nicht weißt - einer der Unterschiede zwischen einem Amateur und jemandem, der professionell arbeitet, ist, dass Amateure nur arbeiten, wenn ihnen danach ist, während jemand Professionelles sich unabhängig von seiner Laune dransetzt.

The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.

Besides, I have determined that

But among the poor and weak and old my strength is obscene. How can I live without a commitment to help at least some poor creature? It's pity someone or pity everyone. And, because it is impossible to act on universal pity, my pity is liable to evaporate. I keep the stopper in. For without pity, and among you, what would I be?

How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?

If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it." Caroline to Peggy

Librarians lose reason when it comes to the regulars, the good people, the readers.

He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.

According to Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, the Swiss analyst and author of Marriage: Dead or Alive , a wedding is more than a party or a legality. It's not less than a boxing ring, two people facing off, acknowledging their separate identities rather than their union, in the company of all the people who lay claim to them. A wedding is the time and place to recognize the full clutch of the past in the negotiation of a shared future.

Tired is a feeling, but duty is a fact

I have. You. For Life. Bonded. Not Bonded. Fuck the details. I just want to be with you, Clare.

I said, I love you, you arrogant arse." She smiled. "I always have. You're my mate, Owen Breese MacLaren. The distance won't change that. It never has.

I haven't stopped thinking about anything you have said." She looked down at the worktop. "You're not perfect, Owen, and I apologize for pointing it out to you on so many occasions. I honestly didn't think you were serious until last night, but you're right, I do want you. I always have." She looked up at me. "So, why would I walk away from you now?

Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's.

and even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to.

It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.