Quotes About Commitment

I cannot stay, he lied for me, eyes averted. I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you. His gaze met mine. And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

I didn't mean now," he protested. "I'm not going to raise the child. I'm having enough trouble with Rachel.

You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.

And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I'll kill him for you." From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

What do you want me to do? Marry you? People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon!

I'd said thank you. And apologized. It was more than I thought I'd ever do. You're welcome, he said, his expression lost in the shadows. I'll see what I can do about the no lying... thing. And inclining his head, he vanished.

Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive.

Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!" I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. "We are serious people doing serious things! I don't have time for butterflies!

I'm not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.

Ï'm going to love you within an inch of your life, then love you some more.

Yes, well, it's not, like I want to marry you he said.

I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

I wouldn't miss it for the world." Al could just suck my toes and die.

All I'm saying is you've been dating him for three months. Most guys you date are either dead or running scared by now.

Yes, well, it's not like I want to marry you," he said.

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?

If you're in Congress, don't you have to be there sometimes?

Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.

He wanted to settle into a full human life, to pick a place and stay there, to learn it completely, in all its seasons, to grow his food, make his house and his tools, become part of a community of friends.

You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see? And so you have to find what it is you love. You have to remember it, or create it.

Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism.