Quotes About Commitment

Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?

Never the end, my love. Now that I have you at last. Only beginnings.

But marriage is forever.' 'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.' Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said. 'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you.

el matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.

You aren't intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope?" Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. "I intend to be happy," Lord Francis said. "I shall see to it that I quarrel with Soph every day of our lives, Claude.

I think a marriage is for two people, Charles. But a wedding is for their families and friends.

Is there any chance at all that you still feel— I do. So do I, she said. They had understood each other perfectly. I love you. So do I. I love you too. Will you marry me? Yes.

But marriage is forever.' 'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.' Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said. 'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you.

And you, Elizabeth? he had asked. Do you love me? Will you wait for me? Yes, she had answered with all the ardor of extreme youth. I love you, Robert, and I shall wait forever if I must.

Will you take a chance on me, then, Diana? Will you marry me and give me a chance to shower your universe with stars? And to cram an eternity into what is left of a lifetime? Will you let those children you want be mine too? I would strongly advise you to say no.

And in the very center of her vision—and of her heart and her life—Gerard, the man she had always loved and always would.

You don't think you will be sorry, Diana? No, she said. Do you think you will be? Only if I see you unhappy, he said. I will never forgive myself if I make you unhappy.

He was no dream lover. He was Jack. And she loved him. And would no longer believe that it was a misplaced love. She loved him. No matter what. For always.

And I wanted so much to be able to set the world at your feet. I never wanted anything but you, she almost whispered.

And she had given herself to him, not just from sympathy but with more passion than he had ever known in a woman.

He wanted desperately to love her, to be able to make her happy, to be a family with her and their children. He wanted the dream—home, wife, children, love, happiness. Not fleetingly—gone almost before he could grasp it, darkness at its heart—but forever.

How could he doom her to spend the rest of her days with him?

He loves you, you may be sure.

I wanted to be able to give her all of myself. I tried.

Do you not know me well enough, he asked, to know that I would have come to you as fast as horse could gallop at any time I had received such a letter from you in the last six years?

But there was also an inner welling of joy, reflected in the eyes of the man who gazed back at her—it was the first dance of the rest of their lives.

Marriage is work." She frowned. "Yeah, but what exactly does that mean?" Car doors closing had Jo glancing out the window in time to see Brody get out of his Bronco. He moved with steady, determined strides to Jim and shook his hand. "Sometimes I think it means staying and accepting the other person when all you want to do is run. Giving the storm time to pass, knowing smooth waters are ahead.

After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]

We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.