491 Quotes About Devotion

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

Maybe she is wrong about her marriage. Perhaps there is love, a love defined by marriage. Devoted, spiteful love.

We were both satellites orbiting Denny’s sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do!

My husband would not give me an opportunity for worship. That was his greatness. They are cowards who claim absolute devotion from their wives as their right; that is a humiliation for both.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

The lady laughed a little laugh and said, “A man with a strong body as yours is not capable of doing anything more than showing a few shiny pieces of cloth? Where is the obsession of the moth that hurtles itself into the flame out of devotion?”“Show me first the wick that burns itself to light the room, Ma’m?

When does it cease to be something beautiful, a faithful aspect of the heart, to become off-center, slightly off the axis, and then hurled into an obsessional void?