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Quotes About Commitment

I know that I'm here until this is over. Until either they're dead or I am. Alina's death will be avenged.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Vows, like wishes, are dangerous things. Precision matters.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Because what he showed me is that he sees the same things in her I do. He knows she's worth waiting for. And when it's time, he intends to be the one. That's why he's keeping her close. To those of us who live forever, a few years isn't long to wait.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If aught must be lost, it will be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, it will be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, it will be my life for yours. I am Given." Smiling
~ Karen Marie Moning
he fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's more like, you are mine forever, should you agree and give me the words back. And now I am yours forever, whether you agree or not.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours. I am Given. That's what you said.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You know I'm no' a good man," he said, his voice deceptively gentle, belying the steel beneath it. "I've made no excuses. I've given you no pretty lies. You came with me anyway. Doona pretend you doona know what I want and doona think to deny me. Twice now you've tried to go back. There is no going back with me, Chloe-lass.
~ Karen Marie Moning
And the lass?" Drustan asked carefully. Dageus's smile was icy. "She goes where I go." "Dageus—" "Say no more. If she doesn't go, I doona go." "I would protect her for you." "She goes where I go." "And if she doesn't wish to?" "She will.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She'd accepted his blade and stayed. She didn't ken the full significance of that. When a Druid offered his favored weapon, his Selvar, the one he wore against his skin, to a woman, he offered his protection. His guardianship. Forever. And she'd taken it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They're good men. The best. Keep an open mind and heart, because I can tell you one thing for sure: when these Keltars love, they love completely and forever.
~ Karen Marie Moning
A superhero isn't something you play at sometimes—it's something you are. Full-time, all the time, every day.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He was waiting, one strong hand outstretched. She had no idea what he was doing, or where he thought he was going. He was asking her to say "yes" without knowing. He was asking for that leap of faith Gwen had warned her about. For the second time in less than forty-eight hours, the man was asking her to throw all caution to the wind and leap with him, trusting that he wouldn't let her fall.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Will you really bring it?" she whispered. "Aye. Lisa, I'd bring you the stars if it would cease your tears.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all—good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There will be no takin' this back, lass. Doona even think to be tellin' me later that you willna hae me. You will hae me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She was his reason for being. His every defining moment occurred because of her, and only in her presence did he know peace. She was his brightest shining star. She made him a better man, and to men who know how fundamentally and deeply they're flawed, such a woman is irresistible.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He stared at her a long moment, his eyes narrowed. "Lass," he said softly, "if you tried to leave me, I fear I wouldn't let you. I fear I would do whatever I had to do, no matter how ruthless, to keep you." "I consider myself warned," she said pertly. "Trust me, I'm not going anywhere. Now tell me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He turned his face up, eyes slanting half closed with bliss and rumbled in his broad chest. "I see you, Yi-yi." Yi-yi was what he'd named her that day long ago on Olean when she'd named him. He'd been saying the same words to her every time she awakened or fell asleep for four years, and wouldn't rest until she said it back. "I see you, too, Shazam.
~ Karen Marie Moning
But I'd cut the fucking moon out of the sky for her.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She knew her husband would never stray, so highly did he value that which he'd waited nearly six thousand years to know, so precious was it to him: love. She knew he would be there with her until the very end, that he would cherish each wrinkle, every line in her face, because in the final analysis they were not a negation of life but an affirmation of a life well lived. Proof positive of laughter and tears, of joy and grief, of passion, of living.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Your brother," Duncan observed aloud, as the significance of their relationship sunk in. He was not her lover. He wouldn't have to kill him.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'd die for him. There's nothing else to say. I'd give the last breath in my body and the last hope in my heart to keep him alive.
~ Karen Marie Moning