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Quotes About Loyalty

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
~ Jodi Picoult
Be my wife, all my life.
~ Jodi Thomas
Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.
~ Jodi Thomas
He'd try to keep it light. "Kate, if you're going to call my border collie your baby every time you see her, maybe we should marry and make the poor dog legit.
~ Jodi Thomas
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
~ Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Em knows how to nurse a grudge. She doesn't act out, doesn't yell or cry or throw things. She just quietly removes you from the circle of people she trusts. Once you cross that line with Em, there's no going back.
~ Jody Gehrman
Every good killer needs someone to kill for. - Raith
~ Joe Abecrombie
It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.
~ Joe Abercrombie
That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?' Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?' 'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?' 'The kind you obey.
~ Joe Abercrombie
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,
~ Joe Abercrombie
I will confess!" shrieked Teufel, "I will confess!" "Excellent," said Glokta brightly. "Excellent," said Severard. "Etherer," said Practical Frost.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?
~ Joe Abercrombie
To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.
~ Joe Abercrombie
loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?' 'Right, Chief.' 'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What? A family?" Ninefingers frowned, rubbing grimly at the stump of his middle finger. "I did have one. And now I've got another. You don't pick your family, you take what you'er given and you make the best of it." He pointed at Ferro, then at Quai. "You see her, and him, and you?" He slapped his hand down on Jezal's shoulder. "That's my family now, and I don't pal on losing a brother today, you understand?
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.
~ Joe Abercrombie