Quotes About Commitment

I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world...

Stoker's smile was slow and terrible. 'You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?' He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. 'You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her.' He stepped to the edge of the rock. 'I love her enough to die for her.' And without another word, he disappeared over the edge of the rock and into the blackness of the sea.

Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?' Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.

Do you know what sort of trouble you are courting?" "Courting?" I gave him a scornful look. "I married it long ago. As our favorite detective, Arcadia Brown, would say to her faithful Garvin, 'Excelsior!

Will you write?" I asked. "Probably not. The pen is a demanding mistress. I take delight in thwarting her expectations.

Perhaps I have simply decided that if such misadventures are the price I must pay to have you in my life, I am content to pay them.

You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?" He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. "You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her." He stepped to the edge of the rock. "I love her enough to die for her.

It can be a thankless and tiresome task, always being the person who holds the world together," I said gently.

Veronica Speedwell, I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.

None of your husbands ever stuck around long enough for you to tell. You change marital partners like the rest of us change underwear," Mary Alice retorted.

By the time she split from the third one, she'd given up entirely on marriage and decided to keep a string of what the kids call fuckbuddies.

I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.

I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

He would rather dance at the end of a hangman's noose than betray you? That speaks to a connection more intimate than mere friendship,

I don't choose what I do based on how easy it is.

The things we do for our friends.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

Always. Stay always. Always.