Quotes About Commitment

She now understood the potencial for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion

Yo siempre digo que, si una chica vive con un hombre sin estar casados, es que lo quiere de verdad —repuso Satchwell—. Porque no hay nada que la retenga, sólo sus sentimientos, ¿no es así?

Do the job and do it well.

Social workers work Saturdays as well as detectives, I see." "People don't stop needing help at weekends," she said drily.

Katya had given Mr Blay to understand that he could turn up at any hour of the day or night and he took full and regular advantage of the offer.

es difícil abandonar de pronto un amor duradero: es difícil, pero debes hacerlo como sea...»

Was she to spend every holiday, for the rest of her life, wondering whether she was in love with Cormoran Strike?

But he knew no other way; it was part of a short but inflexible personal code of ethics that he had carried with him all his adult life: do the job and do it well.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

And he was her very first and it was obvious, you know . . . he knew what he was doing, so it was all that much more important to her. Mad in love, she was. Mad .

she now understood the potential for loneliness that came with a single, driving passion.

it is hard to throw off long-established love: hard, but this you must managed somehow

And," he continued, "thanks for everything you've done this week." "It's my job," said Robin lightly. "If I could afford a secretary…but I expect you'll end up pulling down a serious salary as some fat cat's PA.

Aun así, él no sabía hacer las cosas de otra manera; eso formaba parte de un código ético personal, breve pero inflexible, que lo había acompañado a lo largo de toda su vida adulta y que podía resumirse en una frase: «Haz el trabajo y hazlo bien.»

Why the fuck, he asked himself, as he limped towards Mile End Park the following morning, was he, the senior partner and founder of the firm, having to stake out a protest march on a hot Saturday morning, when he had three employees and a knackered leg?

D'you mind if we get going?' said Strike, checking his watch. 'I told Elin I'll be over tonight.' 'No problem,' said Robin. Yet for some reason—perhaps due to her headache, perhaps because of the lonely woman sitting in Summerfield among the memories of loved ones who had left her—Robin could easily have wept all over again.

You can only carry a weight and use your hands, if you strap the weight to your back. Marry, and you get the use of your hands back. Don't marry, and you'll never have your hands free for anything else.

I still mean the thing I said to you at the end. I always will.

He had almost fallen asleep on top of Elin last night, and counted it among the week's few small achievements that he had finished the job, at least.

She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company of another human being, the act of caring, of carrying with you the thought of someone else. She would, she supposed, never see him age beyond the present day, and found that the thought made her immeasurably sad. Somewhere,

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.

Profide et Patria