Quotes About Commitment

he did love her, even if it was beef-love: stupid and tough and overcooked.

CHYTERA: [...] May I... May I ask? You wear a wedding ring, but on the wrong hand. Indulge my curiosity? ERASMO: She didn't want to get married. Doesn't mean I wasn't her husband.

I'll be into anything you want after breakfast and a coffee and serious medication, okay?

I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.

I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.

She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.

A ring don't make a bride, that's all.

When it's time to settle into the serial monogamy inherent in writing a book (although, between you and me, I secretly practice biblio-polygamy—I can't help myself)

Arthur took me for granted, she thought. And I took him for granted. That is the point of marriage. That's what marriage is.

have to wait. We can get married in a few weeks.

Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.

aim to live as a slave to Christ, because only then am I free…. We're all in some kind of bondage …. Most of us have the freedom to choose that slavery, whether we realize it or not." I'd

Choose you this day whom ye will serve … but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

It's like we're fairweather friends, pals if everything is hunky-dory. Friends are supposed to talk about things, weather the storms. Be friends, come what may. Resolve problems. Not first sign of trouble and ooh, we're not talking to you. It's pathetic. And now I'm mad.

Marriage is very difficult. It's like a 5,000–piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

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Already, "woke" is a hashtag that's now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long-term commitment fueled by constant reevaluation.

To be indebted is to fixate on the future (Page 186)

Helen made you think like the world would end without your art.

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

Human beings get no practice at staying. We have no special limbs for it. Once we commit to being still, darling, it's all we ever do.