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Quotes About Loyalty

Petey boy?" "No, sir." "Guess." "Before just now I would've said zero.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's a trust thing. When people trust me, I'd just about die before I let them down. You can tell me anything.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Faith includes not only a center of value and an image of power but, thirdly, trust in and loyalty to a story that helps us make sense out of our world and experiences. This is what Fowler calls the shared master story.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don't you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Remember this when you are queen," he whispered hoarsely. "I moved the earth and the water for you.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And then she felt her Ell's great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in hers. Oh. Oh . They would not abandon her. Of course, they would not. How silly she had been. They were her friends—they had always been. Friends can go odd on you and do things you don't like, but that doesn't make them strangers.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Oh, but Masha, can't you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
People who share a secret share a heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will always be here, in my old chair by the door, waiting for you, whenever you are lonesome. Our little house will always look just the same as when we first blew the dust off the bookshelves, and the kettle will always be just about to boil. Sometimes I will be young, and sometimes I will be old, sometimes you will be young, and sometimes you will be old. But for as long as forever, I will keep a room for you. I swear by the sparkle in my eye and the spring in your step.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me." "Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?" "Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
SOMEONE IS APPROACHING THE SHIP. SOMEONE BIG. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. I WILL BITE THEM. I WILL. LET ME BITE THEM. YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY. EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER IF I BITE THEM. TRUST GRUMPO. GOOD BOY GRUMPO.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Family is a thorny, vicious business
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. "It must be nice," said Aubergine suddenly, "to have a friend like that, and like things so much." Yes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will always be here, in my old chair by the door, waiting for you, whenever you are lonesome. Our little house will always look just the same as when we first blew the dust off the bookshelves, and the kettle will always be just about to boil. Sometimes I will be young, and sometimes I will be old, and sometimes you will be young, and sometimes you will be old. But for as long as forever, I will keep a room for you. I swear by the sparkle in my eye and the spring in your step.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying." - Radiance
~ Catherynne Valente
We all know how the Cinderella story ends, but trust me, that prince would have been crazy not to choose my sister.
~ Cathy Cassidy