Quotes About Commitment

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

When will I ever understand that what's astonishing about the number of men who remain faithful is not that it's so small but that there are any of them at all?

Being single is a distraction. I mean one of the things about marriage that is good for both men and women is that it frees you from all that energy that you use to put into dating. You can put it into work. You don't have to worry about who is going to take you to the dinner party tomorrow. It takes time to be single, it seems to me.

If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

And since I'm marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you're sleeping with Laurel—" "I'm not sleeping with Laurel. We're dating." "Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs." "For a while. Minus the singing.

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

And don't worry." Bob, Carter's best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. "I've got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line." "You're a treasure, Bob." She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.

When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Because you're the one. Because I've never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don't want any of that with me, I'll give you the best I've got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don't want it.

Do you think I'd leave you alone when you're twisted up like this? I tell you I love you, and it feels like I broke your heart. No one has ever said that to me. In my life, no one's ever said those words to me. I'm making you a promise right here that you'll hear them from me every day.

It's about us. It's about trust.

It's good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume," she qualified, "but know. To be with someone, who even when you don't think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I'm not going to look around the corner for what's next.

You changed what was between us. You took the step, and I didn't see it coming. I can't be sorry for that when I'm so damn grateful for it. I don't know if you were always the one, he said again. But I know you're the one now, and I know you're going to be the one tomorrow, and next month, next year. And you're going to be the one for the rest of my life.

You're the woman in my life," he said. "Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.