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Quotes About Commitment

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Promise me, we won't ever do this again," Sadie said. "Promise me, that no matter what happens, no matter what dumb thing we supposedly perpetrate on each other, we won't ever go six years without talking to each other. Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My point is, it's tempting," she said. "It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. "If you lose a flower, you get another flower," Maya reasons. "If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Maybe the sex wouldn't have been exceptional, but it wouldn't have mattered. Because the other things they had were finer than sex. Because he loved Sadie. It was one of only a handful of things that he knew to be a constant about himself. The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You're incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you love someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Real love' is not just instinct, but intent.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words of Anders Larsson came back to him: "To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Perché farla, una cosa, se non credi che abbia un grande potenziale.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life
~ Gabrielle Zevin
it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She was intelligent, but her intelligence didn't get in her way of her enthusiasm
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I've decided we're going to be great friends, by the way. Don't bother trying to resist me. I'll stalk you until you submit.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the hotel. "Do you mind what your father said?" she asked him. "No," Marx said. "I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Click on this word, he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie hadn't worked on a game of her own since she'd been with Dov, though she did occasionally help him with his. It was easier, in some ways, to work with and for Dov than it was to do her own work.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But then he reminded himself: They are not only my friends. They are my colleagues. He had turned them into his colleagues, and in a strange way, that was comforting to Sam. Ichigo bonded them to him for life.
~ Gabrielle Zevin