Quotes About Commitment

If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens into a rope and hung myself from a tree!

Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.

At some point in the evening Dellarobia had stopped being amazed that Ovid had turned into someone new, and understood he had become himself, in the presence of his wife. With the sense of a great weight settling, she recognized marriage. Not the precarious risk she'd balanced for years against forbidden fruits, something easily lost in a brittle moment by flying away or jumping a train to ride off on someone else's steam. She was not about to lose it. She'd never had it.

She wanted to know did that mean getting married. I said why not. We were never getting married, we could barely pull our act together to buy a phone plan.

Marriages tended to harden like arteries..

One other person can go a long way towards making your world right, she said, but the support has to run both ways. ... Saying love has to come from a strong place, not just grabbing whatever's in reach. You can't choose your family, but partner is your best shot at a decent do-over. 432

Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.

Schoolteacher pay is for the most part in the toilet. I gather this is common knowledge, but I had no idea, the day Miss Barks said, So long sucker, I'm chasing the big bucks now. Schoolteacher! I've had friends in places high and low since then, and some of the best were people that taught school. The ones that showed up for me. Outside of school hours they were delivery drivers

they'd shared an exuberance that eventually suffocated under tenure applications and mortgages. This was not a new story. Maybe Iano still had access to that kind of joy, but she'd surrendered it as her half of the marital bargain.

You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?

Willa's lifelong service to the duty of proper order now seemed like an idiot's game.

Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

But Dovey was one of those people who traveled in a medium-size pod of tardiness on which others came to rely.

Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.

pricking ourselves, sharing our blood to promise brotherhood. As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

For cafeteria workers far and wide. We love you guys!

Seks adalah ongkos wanita atas pernikahan. Pernikahan adalah ongkos pria atas seks.

To my first love, my only love." "To my greatest love," he answered, clinking his flute to hers, happiness flooding

The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It

His gal had thrown down, and he was going to follow her wherever that led.

Tatsu had pursued me for years, but more recently we had managed to achieve an improbable entente.

And divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?