Quotes About Commitment

I care to marry only a gentleman who loves me.

He had even suggested that they get married without further delay. She often wondered what would have happened with their lives if she had said yes.

I want you to know—and I swear by all that I once held honorable that I tell the truth—that I loved you when we came here together . . . I loved you, Becky, with the whole of my being.

Love me, she whispered. Go on loving me, Piers. Don't stop. Never, he promised her with his eyes.

I am going to learn it if I must die in the attempt.

He would never stop loving her. Never.

Character traits are longer-lasting and are something on which a good marriage can be built. Respect and affection can grow in a marriage if husband and wife like and respect each other.

I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.

I'll never stop loving you. Don't expect it of me.

Allie. The woman he had loved in different ways for fourteen years. But always deeply. Always more deeply than he had loved anyone or anything else, including himself. Especially himself. Indeed, he was very close to hating himself at that moment.

Then marry me, he said . . . You like me, do you not, Elizabeth? We could have a good friendship, I believe, a good life together. I have enough love for both of us. I should never demand more than you are prepared to give.

She had had to decide between one glorious night of love and a lifetime of friendship. She had chosen the night of love.

But they are good hands," he said, holding them up in the space between them, palms toward her. Slim hands, slender fingers, gold rings on four of them. Three of those fingertips had felled a man and left him gasping for survival. "They will protect you all the rest of my life and never hurt you. They will hold you and bring you comfort when you need it. They will hold our children. They will caress you and bring you pleasure. Come. Lie down on the bed." Our

I could not crave any other woman when there was you.

Oh, she said. Well, that did not make any difference. I loved you regardless. And I loved you regardless, he said.

I fully intend to cherish any lady I marry, to cultivate a friendship with her, to grow fond of her, to protect and defend her, to give her my time and attention whenever I am able, to remain faithful to the vows I make to her. Is that not what love is?

When something that needs to be done is impossible to do," Estelle said, "I have always found that the only possible course of action is to do it anyway.

How could she expect ever to find a man who would want to marry her just because she was? It was absurd. And she would have to return the compliment, would she not? She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.

The scoundrel has not let you down, has he? My God, I will not allow anyone else to do that to you. I'll kill him!

And he had felt all the responsibility of knowing that she was deeply in love with him.

She had given him all she had to give. She would not feel guilty for that.

I want to marry again . . . Eventually. To someone I can love with my whole being. To someone who will make the universe explode around me.

I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.

For God's sake if you must hate me, do so wholeheartedly.