Quotes About Commitment

She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.

The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

Fatherhood impose[s] an obligation that [is] more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

As he played it off to Nat, Archy knew—felt, like the baby-shaped ache in his left arm—that neither his ability nor his willingness to care for Rolando English for an hour, a day, a week, had anything whatsoever to do with his willingness or ability to be a father to the forthcoming child now putting the finishing touches on its respiratory and endocrine systems in the dark laboratory of his wife's womb. Wiping

The Mittelwerk," Stolzmann repeated. His tone committed him to nothing. He might have heard of the Mittelwerk once or twice. He might just have been trying the word for the sound of it. He might have been trying to imagine what type of mittel was manufactured in this peculiar-sounding werk.

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives. She didn't suppose they needed to get married to do that, and she knew that she certainly ought not to want to.

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives. She didn't suppose they needed to get married to do that, and she knew that she certainly ought not to want to.

You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling on you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling on you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

they had not been able to bear the weight of married love upon their windpipes.

Bosch had always thought it wasn't a bad way to go—doing what you loved.

I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing. Harry, you sure you-- You think I have a choice?

When you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life.

I mean like with the love of your life. Everybody's got one person out there. One bullet. And if you're lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you're shot through the heart, then there's nobody else. No matter what happens—death, divorce, infidelity, whatever—nobody else can ever come close. That's the single-bullet theory.

You had to have an emotional response. It was that response that lit the match that started the fire of relentlessness.

Take every case personally and you get angry. It builds a fire. It gives you the edge you need to go the distance every time out.

Those five words…"the good of the department." They never added up to anything but high jingo.

He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

Yes, I'm fine. I feel good, actually. Now that I know." "I know what you mean. I remember the time when I decided for good. When I said fuck it, this is what I do.

I do love you, Harry. I want to try to keep that alive because it's one of the best things about my life. One of the best things I know. I know it will be hard. But that might make it all the better. Who knows?

Rollerboy down and lay down on it

She guessed that his joining the cold case squad had fully consumed him to the point where he hadn't had time to listen his music.

charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch