Quotes About Commitment

Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

This is bigger than me," he said finally. "It's bigger than polka, even. So I guess I'll help.

This is what is going to happen, Aleran. You will no longer lie with me. You will treat me in exactly the fashion that you would any proper young lady of the Citizenry. You will court me, and do it well, or so help me I will strangle the life from you. Um, Tavi said. And, she said, a massively threatening quality in her tone, you will court me properly after the ways of my people. You will do so with legendary skill and taste. And only when that is done will we share a bed once more.

Got it with you?" I asked Butters. "Are you kidding?" he said, grinning. "I may never put it down again." "So show her," I said. "You think that's . . . you know. Okay? To show it off like that?" "You aren't showing off," I said. "You're confirming her faith." Butters screwed up his face and then said, "Yeah. I guess that's okay, then.

Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive.

For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.

There are a lot of ways to get ready for trouble. You get ready to fight. That's one of them. But it's even more important that you build something worth fighting for.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.

So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane. Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?

It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family.

My pledge of honor upon it.

You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.

What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.

Family isn't something one discards lightly.

The child was my daughter. It didn't matter that I hadn't known about her or that I had never seen her with my own eyes. There was a child of my blood who needed my help and protection. I was her father. I would die to protect her if need be. End of story.

The creation of the community encourages investment in that community," I said. "Once they've invested, they'll fight to protect it.

If you let Murphy get hurt, I'll kill you." "Kid, if anything happens to Murphy because of me . . ." I sighed. "I think I'll let you.

But it's even more important that you build something worth fighting for.