To trust someone is to believe that he or she has your best interests in mind, that the person will protect you from harm and is reliable.

Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?" "Indeed, I have." "And? Was it worth it?" "Every single time." ? Rachel Hauck, To Love a Prince

Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?" "Indeed, I have." "And? Was it worth it?" "Every single time.

Funny thing about love, real love—it filled every soul with courage.

So there I was sitting next to this vision. Esmerelda Belmont. During the closing song, I held her hand and never let go. I'd met perfection. "We married six months later and enjoyed eight years of wedded bliss before she left this world for the great beyond, letting go of my hand for the very first time. "I miss her every day.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

I've so much respect for Chelsea, and I love them.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.