Quotes about Devotion

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie

The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.

She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble

You are part of my existence, part of myself.

I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.