Quotes About Loyalty

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity.

No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that?... I will always need you. I will always want you to be part of my life. Do you understand that?

He spoke solemnly. "This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we always have, we go to it together.

A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?' 'No. Just stupid.' 'Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.

Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly.

You should go with him, Nighteyes. You should go with Bee. If we end here, then I meet the end with you. As you ended with me. How is the hunting where you are? It will be better with you. I'm coming to you, my brother.

You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you." "p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz

It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

As you will, King Fitz.