Quotes About Commitment

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth, she said. It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

Sometimes, I think my whole life has been about holding onto you.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together - what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Love isn't a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other's edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.

There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.

After fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling," he says. "It's a choice.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Arise and do thy sacred work.