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Quotes About Loyalty

I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
~ Patrick Ness
I thought I had more. I thought Gudmund was my more. It didn't matter how crap everything else was. The stuff with Owen, The stuff with my parents, even later with the stuff at school. I could live with all of that, because I had him. He was mine and no one else's. We lived in this private world, that no one else knew about and no one else ever lived in.
~ Patrick Ness
Faith is belief without proof.
~ Patrick Ness
If she needed him, he'd be there instantly, no questions asked, and he knew she'd do the same. She was here now. They had their bulgogi. This is what a family was. Or should be.
~ Patrick Ness
Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and falls asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog. I
~ Patrick Ness
She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too.
~ Patrick Ness
You'll stay?" Conor whispered to the monster, barely able to speak. "You'll stay until…" I will stay, the monster said, its hands still on Conor's shoulders. Now all you have to do is speak the truth.
~ Patrick Ness
And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
~ Patrick Ness
That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too." "So what happened?" I ask. "Why isn't she still in charge?" "She made a mistake," Corinne says primly. "People who didn't like her took advantage of it." "What kind of mistake?" Her permanent frown gets bigger. "She saved a life.
~ Patrick Ness
One night a whole storehouse of wheat was taken, so completely and successfully it's obvious now there's people in the town and the army who've been helping 'em. Which is bad news for the town and the army.
~ Patrick Ness
Need a poo, Todd." "Shut up, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.
~ Patrick Ness
When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and falls asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
~ Patrick Ness
One minute I'm standing there behind everyone and the next thing I know, I'm between Matthew and Viola, I have my knife out pointing at him, my own Noise falling like an avalanche and my mouth saying, "You best take two steps away from her and you best be taking 'em right quick.
~ Patrick Ness
Sintiéndolo mucho, tendrás que venir. Sé que ella intenta protegerte, pero debes saber que cuando todo esto haya acabado, tendrás un hogar, muchachito. Con alguien que te querrá y cuidará de ti.
~ Patrick Ness
I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt," he says one more time. "Just tell me her name and this will all stop." I
~ Patrick Ness
That's for the Captain to know," Treasure snapped, and if my story makes her seem unpleasant and paranoid and a suck-up, that's because she was unpleasant and paranoid and a suck-up.
~ Patrick Ness
If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.
~ Patrick Ness
Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
~ Patrick O'Brian
But even if your parents were ardent supporters of the IRA, there were reasons not to tell them that you had joined. If the police or the army broke down the door to interrogate them, the less they knew, the better.
~ Unknown
Conventional wisdom had it that every handler wants a highly placed source.
~ Unknown
But the truth was, Arthur had helped Frohlich set up his business, staking him money, sending him clients, and, ultimately, colluding with him in secret to divvy up the pharmaceutical business.
~ Unknown
It wasn't just the implicit threat that rankled Maura Healey. It was the fact that the Sacklers were playing a shell game: they were throwing their lot in with Purdue when it suited them to do so and distancing themselves from the company when it didn't.
~ Unknown