Quotes About Loyalty

I asked myself what I was doing in that car. They were my friends, of course, my boyfriend was there, we were going to Lila's wedding celebration. But that very celebration confirmed that Lila, the only person I still felt was essential even though our lives had diverged, no longer belonged to us and, without her, every intermediary between me and those youths, that car racing through the streets, was gone.

Ecco Lila festeggiata dal rione, sembrava felice. Sorrideva elegante, cortese, mano nella mano di suo marito. Era bellissima. Su di lei, sulla sua andatura, avevo puntato da piccola, per sfuggire a mia madre. Avevo sbagliato. Lila era rimasta lì, vincolata in modo lampante a quel mondo, dal quale s'immaginava di aver tratto il meglio.

Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.

Estas traiciones, murmuró, si no llegas a saberlas en el momento adecuado, no sirven, cuando estás enamorado lo perdonas todo. Para que las traiciones tengan su peso efectivo, antes debe madurar un poco el desamor.

Yet here she was insisting that I stay with her, to keep me from who knows what stormy sea, from who knows what abyss or precipice, all dangers that at that moment were represented in her eyes by Antonio. But staying near her meant staying in her world, becoming completely like her. And if I became like her, who would be right for me if not Antonio?

I would have don't anything for her, on that morning of reconciliation: run away from home, leave the neighborhood, sleep in farmhouses, feed on roots, descend into the sewers through the grates, never turn back, not even if it was cold, not even if it rained.

Questi tradimenti, mormorò, se uno non li viene a sapere al momento giusto non servono, quando sei innamorato perdoni tutto. Perchè i tradimenti abbiano il loro peso effettivo deve prima maturare un poco di disamore.

If she wants Marcello Solara, I will resign myself. I love her so much that if she's happy with someone else I will withdraw and between us everything will remain as it is now. But if she wants me--if she wants me--there's no help for it, you must give her to me.

They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

tal vez con los hombres las cosas solo pueden funcionar de este modo: vives con ellos un tiempo, tienes hijos y fuera. Si eran superficiales como Nino, se marchaban sin sentir ningún tipo de obligación; si eran serios como Pietro, no faltaban a ninguno de sus deberes, y en caso necesario daban lo mejor de sí mismos. Sin embargo, el tiempo de las fidelidades y las convivencias sólidas había pasado tanto para los hombres como para las mujeres.

Onun tatt??? haz, ard?ndan hala hissettiÄŸi, kusursuz sadakate neden olan ac? olmadan mümkün deÄŸildir gibi geldi.

At those moments I took it for granted that there was not and never would be a manuscript of Lila's. I had always overestimated her, nothing memorable would emerge from her - something that reassured me and yet truly upset me. I loved Lila. I wanted her to last. But I wanted it to be I who made her last. I thought it was my task. I was convinced that she herself, as a girl, had assigned it to me.

I like her, Mamma, you were right to have her come. She smells nice, just like a corpse.

Non era riuscito a stare zitto, l'amicizia tra maschi ha i suoi patti non scritti ma solidi, non come quella tra femmine.

Lei riteneva di fare una cosa giusta e necessaria, io ero lì solo perché c'era lei. Saliamo lentamente verso il più grande dei nostri terrori di allora, andavamo a esporci alla paura e a interrogarla. Alla quarta rampa Lila si comportò in modo inatteso. Si fermò ad aspettarmi e quando la raggiunsi mi diede la mano. Questo gesto cambiò tutto tra noi.

Comme toujours Lila s'attribuait le devoir de me planter une aiguille dans le cÅ"ur, non pour qu'il s'arrête mais pour qu'il batte plus fort.

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Next to her, in the place where we were born, I was only a decoration, that is, I bore witness to Lila's merits. Those who had known us from birth attributed to her, to the force of her attraction, the fact that the neighborhood could have on its streets an esteemed person like me.

Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Svetlana said that when she was in the first grade, kids would torture each other in the playground by asking, "Who do you love more, Comrade Tito or your own mother?

It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.

For some soldiers, there's a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

Mojim drugovima – For my comrades

One can define this virtue," he wrote, "as love of the laws and of the homeland [patrie].